Relocated [PRIVATE: SnowyCheetah and TheWhistlerify]

[TheWhistlerify]

Dakari felt the same nervousness from before take over him once more when Mbali placed a paw on his shoulder. Uh, yeah. Nice to meet you to Mbali." his gaze once again locked onto the rather distant forest as the lioness suggested they went there, "Maybe there would be something to eat..." he kind of had no idea what were they both going to do about food, but if there was anything to hunt in this land, then it will probably be liivng in the woods.

His interest suddenly shifted onto the wierd sort of ground they were both walking on, and he noticed that you can pick it up just like sand. He looked rather astounded when Mbali licked it, and made it turn into liquid somehow. "Looks like... water?" he asked, as he stared at the snow in Mbali's paw slowly met. He grabbed some snow himself and licked it. To his surprise, it tasted just like water, only colder. "It tastes like water."

[SnowyCheetah]

"Yes it does... but only if we touch it. And it's cold! Water is usually cool but this is..." had she heard of the word freezing, she would have used it.

Mbali put the melting snow back on the ground and stood up. "never mind that, we should go. We don't know how long it's going to be before we find food." she said, beginning to walk toward the forest. She was beginning to shiver, hardly used to the cold. Her fur was little protection against it, and her toes were going numb. This made it slightly awkward to walk, but she kept on until she reached the forest. Leaves crunched under her paws as she entered a place partially sheltered from the snow, and much warmer, though still below freezing. Dead leaves and vines lay everywhere as Mbali sniffed around cautiously.

[TheWhistlerify]

As the two of them walked, Dakari was also beginning to feel really cold. He however wasn't as cold as Mbali appeared to be. His mane was at least doing it's job in keeping his head and neck warm enough. His legs however, were really starting to hurt the longer they came in contact with the snow. Upon seeing the small place Mbali walked into, and realising that it will somehow help protect them from the cold wind, he also walked inside. "At least it's warmer here..." he said slowly, walking a little deeper and looking around.

[SnowyCheetah]

Mbali nodded. "Agreed." she replied, beginning to dig in the leaves a bit. Underneath one pile she found a rather large hole, which she cautiously leaned into and, sniffing some more, decided that no creature lived there. Slowly entering, she stayed ready to back out quickly. AT least now her toes had regained feeling, and walking wasn't awkward anymore. She continued to crawl in, until she reached an abandoned den underground. It was oddly warm inside, despite being inside the rather cold ground. She eventually crawled back out again and sighed with satisfaction. "This will work for a place to sleep." she said. She was a bit nervous about sleeping so close to the lion; sleeping was when her guard was down.

[TheWhistlerify]

While Mbali was digging into piles of leaves, Dakari walked deeper into the so-looked-like den. It would definitely be better than being outside. Suddenly he looked around, and couldn't notice Mbali anywhere. For a moment, he got worried, before letting out a sigh of relief when the lioness came out of the ground. For a moment, he had no idea what the female was talking about, so he walked over to the tunnel she found. After being inside for a moment, he came back outside, his expression telling that he was obviously relieved. "Thank the spirits!" At least the cold problem was solved. The only problem left now was food.

[SnowyCheetah]

"The Spirits?" Mbali asked, having never heard the word "spirit" before. She then looked around, at the time being unable to smell any prey within nose-shot. Right then she remembered the issue of food and almost immediately her stomach growled. "How are we going to eat where we don't know how to hunt?" she asked in a worried tone of voice, looking to Dakari and hoping, but certainly not expecting, that he would have a helpful answer. "I don't see how any prey could survive here..."

[TheWhistlerify]

Dakari grinned, "My mom used to tell me stories... But that's of no importance right now." As Mbali mentioned the word 'eat', Dakari soon noticed that his stomach was growling as well. He thought about it for a moment, before realising that this tunnel that they had discovered, was not created on it's own. "Something must have dug this tunnel you found..." that meant that there were living beings somewhere around here. "I guess we have no choise but look for something."

[SnowyCheetah]

"That is true. I only hope that we dont get eaten before we eat; that's a rather large hole someone made." she replied, brushing aside from leaves but finding nothing but frozen mud underneath.

She wandered off, eventually finding a frozen lake. Unaware of the nearly-frictionless ice, she ventured onto it and soon found herself in the middle of it, unable to dig her claws into the rock-hard frozen water. "Dakari?" she yelled, "Don't come onto this... Water?" she said, confused, finding that a minuscule amount of the ice melted under her paws.

[TheWhistlerify]

Dakari then added, "Well... If it's too dangerous... We can, uh... Eat leaves. Yeah." he knew that he was talking like an idiot. But then again, there were some sort of animals that fed off leaves. He then followed her outside.

He couldn't help but find it kind of funny when she slipped on the ice, but he didn't show it. Being the fun-loving lion that he was, he couldn't help but run towards it and then jump, laughing as he sled across the ice. After a moment, he was sliding on his stomach instead of his feet, but he still found it quite fun. "Why? this is fun!" he said, before gulping as he noticed he was about to bump into a big pile of snow.

[SnowyCheetah]

Under normal circumstances, Mbali would have been amused at Dakari's uncontrolled slide across the strange ground. She tried to walk, but again only managed to slid around as her paws failed to get a grip on the slick ice. She couldn't help but giggle as the lion slid head-first into a pile of snow, making a plume of snowflakes which fell back down over the course of a minute or two. "Because you can't control where you're going out here." she said, angrily smacking one paw on the ice with an almost-inaudible thud. "Mind sliding this way, so I can get out of here? There's certainly nothing to eat on this... thing."