by Malenga » March 31st, 2013, 10:29 pm
"You know what?" Lesedi stood up after shortly just resting herself. She took a few bold, quick paced steps forward, bumping herself onto Chinja. She intended for the push to be hard, although she didn't want to recognize if she did a good job or not as Chinja was taller, and a tad bit larger than her. "I've hard it up to my nose in your attitude," she spat. With her ears pressed against her head, and her teeth glowing in the moonlight, Lesedi stared up at Chinja with angry ruby eyes.
"Lesedi, cool it. We don't need to be fighting right now," Usi calmly explained, getting to his own paws like he was going to step forward if she didn't calm down.
Taking a swift look over to him, her cheek tufts slapped her face before they settled back to hanging once more. "No! He obviously wants a fight, so I'll give him one!" Lesedi's voice echoed through the den, which was probably why after a few short minutes, the return of Rani was made.
"You're just tired, Les. Let's just go to bed--"
But Lesedi ignored Salehe's comment and looked back at the older brother. "You think you're doing yourself well by saying that you're not responsible for your brother? What do you think my sister is going to think when she hears that you weren't even attempting to keep the peace? Are you a cub? She's not going to think highly of either of you," she took a look back at Baya before she looked back up at Chinja, "And before you go off again on how we're judging you or whatever load of rhino poop you're stuck on now to make yourself feel better because you're so butt hurt about whatever is stuck up there, you best check your own attitude. If you want respect, you give it back. Quite frankly, I don't think Usi should be nice to you." Usi sighed, placing his head down on his paws in obvious discomfort of being brought into the conversation. "We don't know where you come from, and you don't know where we come from. As much as you wanna believe we came from a perfect home, with perfect parents and lived happily ever after, you're only half right. We had great lives because our adoptive mother and father cared for us like their own and we were lucky to have ran into them or we'd all be dead by now. Sethunya included."
Lesedi began huffing, attempting to take in as much breath as she could after the rant she displayed in front of the brothers and her own kin.
Usi walked over to the two of them, nudging the teen's shoulder with his nose before she looked over at him, almost snapping out of the state she was in and calming down. Her eyes were no longer glinting with the rage she was feeling, and were now simmering into just being pools of red gems, glittering in the moonlight.
"Lesedi is right; we don't know where each other has come from. Except for Baya, perhaps," Usi looked over to the lion off on his own before looking back at Chinja. "Perhaps not tonight, but I think we would all do some good to let the barriers down and just talk to each other. Not like enemies." The lion looked at his brother, seeing Salehe nod his head slowly in agreement. He then looked at Chinja and smiled once more, "For now, I think we need to sleep and let this night pass. We're all a little stressed out and that will do no good for us getting to know one another."
Badrani nodded his head, slowly. He wasn't looking too pleased about having to share his story, but he certainly didn't look repulsed by it. Besides, if Lesedi was going to share hers, he found more strength in that.
~*~
Sethunya watched the interaction between Kubwa and the lionesses. She already knew his head was messed up, and she had to make sure he thought she didn't know that. But more importantly, she had to make sure not to get caught up in a good side of Kubwa-- if he even had one at all.
Whilst the lionesses paid attention to their king, she looked down at the cub. "Kadogo? Hope you don't find me rude, but I think I'll call you 'Ayo'. It means joy, or valued. And you're both to me." Sethunya smiled at the little one, hoping she could bring him hope for a good life whilst she was here. In fact, she was hoping that once Kubwa was gone, she could possibly adopt him out. Like her birth parents did with her.
"I am going to show Sethunya the territory, my liege," Kakra shakily walked over to the younger lioness and looked at her with regretful eyes. With that, they left off to look at the den, as Kakra knew that no one was going to be there with the return of their king. Once they were near the den, a thorough check was done to see if there were any lurking presences. None.
Kakra turned back to look at the red lioness. "What are you doing here?" she hastily questioned, leaning her head in.
"I'm trying to save you and your pride, Kakra--"
"It's too dangerous! You could be killed!," she noticed her voice was starting to carry into the trees, as had Seth noticed as well.
Seth was looking to see if anyone was coming to investigate but she brought her head back to look down at the caramel lioness. "I promise you, I won't. We have all put together a plan and I know it's going to work. I just need you to believe in me," Sethunya whispered. "I'll tell you more later, alright? I'll find us a spot where we can talk about it in detail and we won't be caught."
Hesitantly, Kakra nodded her head. Her old hues of brown were extremely scared and prance across the tree tops with anxiety, but she nodded her head. Obviously she must have felt some sort of comfort in the fact that there was a plan. "Alright," she placed her paw on Seth's, "If Kubwa ever asks, tell him you're carrying a cub already."
"Won't that make him angry--"
"All you have to do is tell him that the cub was a mistake from another lion. Just stroke his ego as much as you can and he'll bide by it. It should stall for time."
Seth nodded her head. With that, they both walked back to the others, Seth displaying her usual bouncy smile. "If it's alright, Kubwa, I'm going to do a scout of the territory and make sure I know more of my surroundings. After all, if we're going to keep this territory in check, we need someone to look it all over, right?" Sethunya smiled up at him, hoping he would oblige. Otherwise, she would have to sneak out when they were all asleep and deal with the consequences of maybe getting caught when she returned.