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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2018 10:40 am
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Umesahau had done it again.
How did she keep losing track of that warm, wonderful male lion she was traveling with? It was so stupid, and she knew he was going to get tired of looking for her. She had never been out in the rogue lands and was unused to traveling, let alone with another lion! Whenever they split up to find food or water or just accidentally wandered off from another she felt like it was the end of the world.
Maybe she should never have left that little spit of a home she had been raised in. Mostly trapped in, as she was slowly realizing, though now she was free without the cruel words of her mother keeping her in her sad, quiet place. It was all because of Baik and yet she kept losing him. What if she lost him forever this time?
Feeling miserable, she spotted the serval as she was walking to find her cheetah, who Ume had not spotted. She thought the much smaller animal was probably a safe one to ask if they'd seen Baik... so she made her way over.
"Excuse me..." she said quietly, ears back, eyes down cast bashfully. "c...could I ask you something...?"
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Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 3:07 pm
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Ume watched the strange little creature, though she kept her head down and her eyes shifting from down cast to just barely sneaking peeks at them. She did not want to upset them or disrespect them in any way, but she also had never seen anything like them before. She really only knew leopards, and lions.
She was meeting more creatures, outside of the little world she'd been made to grow up in, but it was still very strange.
"Uhm..."
Oh. She had not thought the little creature would actually want to speak with her. Her mother always told her not to speak to strangers. Not for her own safety, of course, but because she was ugly and offensive and everyone would hate her. According to her mom, anyway.
"What... uhm. I'm sorry if it's rude to ask but... what sort of a leopard are you? Or... or are you a lion? A... very small one?" She drooped her head a bit, apologetic. "Though it is not a bad thing to be small. I didn't mean that in a rude way... I'm very sorry."
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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 10:26 am
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Ume had no real training in hunting or, as it turned out, being hunted, so she had no idea there was another feline behind her. She did not hear him, though probably because she was so busy folding her ears back and staring at the ground that she could hear very little. She was shy to a fault, and felt like she was being a hassle.
She hoped this little leopard didn't yell at her for it.
It was startling when the little leopard started laughing, and Ume jumped a bit, eyes wide as she watched Biborka in wonder. She lifted her paw up, just out of surprise alone, shrinking back a bit just in case something weird was going on. It seemed, though, that the laughter was genuine and not cruel, which she was more used to hearing.
Baik had an honest laugh, though, so she was learning what that sounded and felt like. It was nice. Something she liked to hear. She almost risked a smile, though not quite.
"A serval? Oh... your friend? Are they another serval, like you? I... I don't mind them joining, if you don't mind me being here. I'm sorry if my questions seem silly I just... this is my first big adventure out here and everything is... very strange."
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Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2018 2:28 pm
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Ume watched the duo quietly, though she seemed to relax a bit as they talked. It was unnerving to know there was someone behind her, but the little not-leopard's words calmed her. Taking a breath, she slowly turned to see. She glanced at the cheetah sheepishly, who was easy to see now that he was sitting still and tall. He was a lot longer than she was, and lithe. Very interesting looking, and she wanted to go investigate a bit more but was far too shy to ever do such a thing.
Still, she was meeting things she had never seen before, and it was very overwhelming to her.
But, for some weird reason, not as scary as she thought it might be.
"A cheetah? Oh, my mother mentioned them before but she always said they were dangerous. I should stay away from them, because they were fast and I'd be dead," and even more useless, her mother would add, "before I knew it." She hesitated, looking immediately apologetic, "not that I believe everything she says any more. I've learned now how wrong she was about a lot of things... I'm sorry."
She tried her best to smile, though she still looked very unsure of herself.
"It's very nice to meet you both..."
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