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 Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 5:40 pm
Zalla curled up happily on one side of the den, her paws a meer couple inches from his own. "It's very cozy." She agreed, sighing. "I'm happy to be home...Sometimes I don't see it for weeks at a time, and someone else tries to move in every once in a while." She closed her eyes, her head resting against one of the dirt walls. "But it's not too hard to reclaim once I get back."
She really was glad to be safely hidden away in her hole. Not having to worry about happening into someone with Pelo hurt took more stress off her then she thought she had.
She lazed about for a few silent moments, then blinked her eyes open to look at him. "We can try for the meerkats if you want something small and close to the den. I'd rather you not push your paw too hard, or you could get hurt even more on the hunt." She definately did not ned him getting gored by a water buffalo or kicked in the head.
He wouldn't recover from those injuries as fast as a sprained paw.
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Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 8:23 pm
"I can't recall if I've ever had meerkat before." Boipelo might've but he couldn't recall the name of every small creature he had hunted, particularly as a cub. "Even if I have, its still worth a try again." He shifted in an attempt to get more comfortable, 'accidentally' brushing against her paw.
"Sounds reasonable, seeing as I'm good at getting myself in trouble." He smiled. "We can always go track down something more challenging another time."
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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 8:45 pm
Zahina be gracious, but Pelo was close. Zalla glanced at their paws, then quickly raised her eyes back to meet his and smiled back at him a little. She nodding her head, unable to hold back a bit of laughter. "You really are good at getting into trouble." She agreed, her smile wide and bright now. "Not only trying to conquer Zahina lands for yourself as a cub, but now you've come again and hurt this time."
She shook her head a bit, then gave him a sly look. "Maybe you and trouble are buds, but I'm going to have to make him leave. You can't be drawing too much attention to yourself now that you're here." She reached a paw over, ruffling his mane with a giggle. "You'll be a model Zahina lion in no time."
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 3:51 pm
"My brother and I sought to make our father proud. It never occurred to us that we were going about it in a rather dangerous manner." The snake colored male wasn't sure she would ever understand what recognition from his father meant to him. It meant he was still useful. It meant he stood a better chance at survival.
Boipelo noticed her quick glance at their paws, but avoided the subject to let her think what she would about it for now since it was meant to be accidental and all. "We've probably been friends since I could see." He chuckled recalling comments his father had made about himself and Zesiro. "You are right though, it is probably best he leaves. I don't fancy risking my neck...or you.... unnecessarily."
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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 8:42 pm
Zalla smiled and looked away, a bit embarrassed. "You dont have to worry about me. I'm a pretty good hide and seek player, so if I dont want to be found, I can hide myself away pretty well."
She gave her head a tilt, glancing at him again. "I never knew my father, and I dont really remember mom anymore.." She sighed, feeling sadness creep into her chest. "I remember the sound of her voice, she was always laughing. But I dont remember what she looked like..."
Her purple eyes closed, and she seemed tired after saying that. "I was worried about you two, you know...? All this time.." She whispered, frowning a little. "I kept wondering if I'd made the wrong choice, not stopping your father from taking you back. It felt wrong to let him leave with you...and this whole time I thought you would both grow up to be so filled with anger and hate toward me, for not stopping him." She glanced at him through eyes barely opened now. "I'm sorry....I should have done something. I regret that I didn't..."
Her ears flattened to her head, and she watched him for a long and silent moment, then she shook herself out of it. "The past is the past, though...and it has no place in the day we live, so there is no reason to brood on it."
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Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 4:51 pm
"Indeed." Boipelo sat up and stretched a little. "Things turned out decently enough, all things considered." He paused a moment watching her out of the corner of his eye. She spoke the truth when she said she had been worried about his brother and himself. "I do think I'm rested up enough to go out for a hunt now, if you'd like." It was time to get the subject to something a little less depressing and a bit more fun. He wasn't much for brooding over things, regret and indecision seemed rather useless things that served little purpose but to take your focus away from the present.
"Ladies first." He moved to the side to let her pass to the entrance to the cave first, it was her home after all so it was only polite.
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 3:10 pm
Zalla watched him for a moment, then smiled in gratitude. She stood as well, moving toward the opening. "Sure thing. Bet you I can get more." She challenged, wiggling her way out of the burrow quickly.
She started off back toward the meerkat hills, her body held closely to the ground. She knew the animals around here, had spent countless hours watching their habits, memorizing their schedules. If there was one thing she was good at, it was hunting meerkats, and if she were to lose at it she would be a monkey's uncle.
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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 12:54 pm
"I'd be thoroughly surprised if the opposite came true. Given how unlikely it is." Boipelo ducked his head and slipped out of the opening to the cave, following Zalla's lead toward the meerkat dens. This was her hunting ground, it would take time and study to know it as well as she did. He ducked down lower to the ground once he saw that Zalla had. Must be truly suspicious little creatures. Can't blame them though, with a predator next door.
"Did you have any particular plan, Zalla?" He asked softly as he crept up next to the lioness.
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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 5:41 pm
"Plan?" Zalla asked with a smile, sparing him a passing glance. "I guess my plan is not to go blind." She laughed softly, chuckling to herself as she moved closer to the mounds. She circled her way slowly around the base of the hill, listening to the scratching and scuffling sounds that were muttered but not completely silenced coming from inside.
While she knew them, they also knew her, so she'd given up planning a long while ago. Hers was a more direct approach, though it was very undignified, but since when had she ever worried about dignity? She smiled to herself, pressing one ear against the mound before moving a few more feet and listening again.
She stilled her breath, her ears straining, then she nodded to herself. She waited, tense and still, until she heard another scuffling sound close at hand. She closed her eyes, then plowed head first into the wall of dirt. Her head disappeared for a moment and when she pulled back, she had a fat struggling meerkat in her jaws. She had barely pulled it free from the mound before she broke its neck and dropped it, lunging into the hole again for another before they could all flee.
After she’d gotten the second one, she stopped and shook the dirt from her head and away from her eyes. She grabbed both in her mouth, carrying them away from the mound happily.
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