Pacing out of the cooling waters, the Queen of Mystery shook out her jade-pale coat. Tossing her mane out of her eyes, she glanced around the Pride, wishing there was a bit more spirit in the lands. Now that their first two litters were grown and gone, she found herself wanting cubs again... She missed the laughter and the sound of little paws... And teaching them to hunt.
Perhaps she would bring up the subject with her King when he returned from his patrols. Draping herself out on her usual sunning rock, Ellidanio indulged in a private, playful smile. Her handsome mate, Rackna, was still has strong and brave and true as the day she fell in love with him... Stronger, she suppossed, since they had met as cubs...
The memory of those days made her laugh softly. "Oh Rackna..."
Jadera paced toward her parent's lands, knowing it was far past time for her to visit... But she had gotten caught up in the freedom of Rellick's Pride... Of being able to be as she felt.. Not always the princess.. But the aunt, and the sister, and the lover...
The lover was her favorite... Even now the slightest thought of Jager was enough to make her feel all warm and melty inside. But the idea she had to tell her father... Well.. That wasn't exactly her favorite part... What would Rackna thing of Jager? Her mother -she knew- would be charmed by his easy-going manner, his pure heart, his charm and his dashing figure. (After all, Jade was her mother's image, and she swooned at his every breath!) But her father?
Well, fathers never wanted anyone comming after their little Princess...
And the fact that she was doing this on this day was utterly mental. Aritania paced toward her father's lands until she felt her courage leave her. Courage which picked up and ran -faster than a cheetah chasing a late lunch- about the time she caught the scents of her sister and a strange male...
"Oh not you too Jade... Not today." She whispered softly to herself. "Papa will not like this at all."
In addition to his first princess -Jade, the only out of four cubs until the second litter came along- having a mate, his Little Baby -Aritania, the second princess, and youngest- also had one... A big golden male who was King of his own Pride in the mountains.
Whom she loved with all her heart. "Apollo."
Perhaps she would bring up the subject with her King when he returned from his patrols. Draping herself out on her usual sunning rock, Ellidanio indulged in a private, playful smile. Her handsome mate, Rackna, was still has strong and brave and true as the day she fell in love with him... Stronger, she suppossed, since they had met as cubs...
The memory of those days made her laugh softly. "Oh Rackna..."
Jadera paced toward her parent's lands, knowing it was far past time for her to visit... But she had gotten caught up in the freedom of Rellick's Pride... Of being able to be as she felt.. Not always the princess.. But the aunt, and the sister, and the lover...
The lover was her favorite... Even now the slightest thought of Jager was enough to make her feel all warm and melty inside. But the idea she had to tell her father... Well.. That wasn't exactly her favorite part... What would Rackna thing of Jager? Her mother -she knew- would be charmed by his easy-going manner, his pure heart, his charm and his dashing figure. (After all, Jade was her mother's image, and she swooned at his every breath!) But her father?
Well, fathers never wanted anyone comming after their little Princess...
And the fact that she was doing this on this day was utterly mental. Aritania paced toward her father's lands until she felt her courage leave her. Courage which picked up and ran -faster than a cheetah chasing a late lunch- about the time she caught the scents of her sister and a strange male...
"Oh not you too Jade... Not today." She whispered softly to herself. "Papa will not like this at all."
In addition to his first princess -Jade, the only out of four cubs until the second litter came along- having a mate, his Little Baby -Aritania, the second princess, and youngest- also had one... A big golden male who was King of his own Pride in the mountains.
Whom she loved with all her heart. "Apollo."
