[PRIVATE] A Rogue's Light

[Skittakallista]

Auni had watched silently as the events rolled out in front of him. Before hen he had been talking to Mufalfa, his muteness had overcome him once more so he hadn't been able to answer his questions.

Then the others had come and it had seemed that, for a few moments, Tanga had been meaning to kill him. But despite Mufalfa telling him more details of how he had killed his parents (though these had been accompanied by apologies and not gloats as had happened before) Tanga had absteined and forgiven him, which was a releif. Auni believed that he wasn't a bad lion, neither did he want his friend to become a murderer.

His voice began to come back to him, another relief. He decided to go to Tanga who as looking exausted on his own in the grass. "Hey." He said, flopping down next to him. "That was really brave, you know. How do you feel?"

[Nakisisa]

"Imani, i know you, you're not alright" Ra said concerned. looking at her sister, she knew something was wrong, but what, she didnt know. "Sis, if you want to talk about anything..." She said, unhappy at her sisters displeasure.

[oXButterflyKissesXo]

Imani snapped her eyes open and looked at her with a cold, fearful distance in her eyes but with the same smile as she always had. There was a moment of silence between the two of them, until Imani finally spoke. "I'm fine" her cheerful voice held a tinge of poison in it, as she got up and walked away from the group.

When she came to a clearing and sat down, she looked to see if anyone was following behind her before she sighed out and hid her face in her paws on the ground. Inhaling deeply and filling her lungs with as much air as she could, she let a light quivering sigh out and shook her head lightly.

"Why is it now that you're in my head after all this time, I can't get you out, brother?" She asked the sky, seeing it was dimming. There was no point in talking to Kamau from up there; he wasn't even in the clouds-- he was still very much alive. But sometimes, to the youngest sibling, it seemed like her older brother was nothing but a distant memory and a prayer to the sky at the most.

She'd never forget...never forget the say he left.

[Nakisisa]

She's lying. Ra thought to herself. "Imani, please, wait" she shouted after her, but Imani had ran off. "Tanga, can I have a word" Ra shouted to Tanga, hoping he would interupt his confersation qnd speak to her briefly.

[AustralianChaos]

Tanga looked down from the sky when he heard Auni speak, smiling at his friend. "Thanks, Auni," he said, hearing the calm contentment in his own voice once more, causing his smile to widen noticably. "But I know it was the right thing to do, Mufalfa has changed. As I said, I don't think I'll ever fully trust him...but getting revenge on my parents will help no-one."

He was about to speak up once more, when Ra called out, requesting a word with him. "Just a second, Ra!" he called back, before turning back to Auni. "Sorry, friend...I'll be back in a moment if I can." With that, Tanga padded off towards Ra, who had seperated herself from the group. He also noticed that while he expected this conversation to be about him and Imani, the lioness in question was nowhere to be found.

He smile faded as he noticed Ra's expression, and he grew more worried as he came up to her, sitting down in the grass beside her. "Is this...about Imani, Ra?" he asked, a little nervously.

[Nakisisa]

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"Y... Yes" Ra replied in a shakey voice. "Im worried about her, I've never seen her like this" She said almost crying, "I wish I could help her, but she just won't open up to me like she used to" ra said crying now. "Please could you do me a favour..." Ra moaned, leaning into his mane. "...Could ...Could you, find out, what's wrong with her" Ra begged, licking her soon to be brother-in-laws(?) Cheek.

[AustralianChaos]

Tanga look at Ra, utterly bewildered and devastated by how to strong, bold lioness he knew was breaking down. He did not back away or resist when she leaned into him, and let her bury her head in his mane, knowing she might be able to draw some comfort from it.

But Tanga did take a startled step backwards when Ra licked his cheek, fielding the last part of her question. Aside from Imani just recently, his parents were the only lions to have ever shown him that level of affection. It said a lot to Tanga that Ra was willing to be so close to him, and he looked back at her, trying to best to regain his voice.

"Ra...your little sister is everything to me," he managed to reply, letting her sink back into his mane again. "Of course I'll try and help her. But, if she's your sister, what makes you think she'll open up to me better? I love her, but you've known each other for so much longer than I've known her...I don't quite understand...I would have thought she would open up better with you, even if she's not quite as willing as she used to be." Tanga gave Ra a confused look to prove his point.

Tanga just did not quite see how, even if they loved each other, that Imani would be more willing to open to him than to her closest companion and older sister. He may not have had siblings of his own, but Tanga knew that, if he was troubled over something, the first lion or lioness he was likely to see for help would be someone he had known for a long time...like his parents, were they still alive.

[Skittakallista]

As Tanga walked away, Auni sighed. No one seemed to be paying him that much attention. He was very happy for his friends, yes, but he couldn't help feel a little sad. After all, if he had not been there, Tanga would probably still be lying in the grasslands, breaking down...

He nearly jumped in suprise when he heard his sigh mirrored. He whipped his head around, searching for its origins. He heard a voice coming from a nearby clearing. He stood up to investigate. He was Auni, comforter extraordinair...

Imani was lying in the middle of the clearing, clearly upset and thoughtful. "Why is it now that you're in my head after all this time, I can't get you out, brother?" A brother? He didn;t know she had a brother. But she hadn't really talked much about her family...

He padded quietly into the clearing and stood beside her. "I didn't know you had a brother, Imani."

[oXButterflyKissesXo]

Imani whipped her head around and looked at the lion. "Auni!" She exclaimed, surprised that he was the one to come and see her. She had thought that he was in the background because he didn't want to get involved in the drama, but she was apparently wrong. After she had finished catching her breath and her heart rate slowed down, she looked back at him with her violet eyes. "Well, not many lions know besides Ra and myself" the lioness explained.

She could very well see him since there was hardly any light left in the African sky of night and the stars and moon were the only real source of ability to see besides the ability to see in the dark. Keeping it inside, her she breathed out through her nose calmly in hopes that she could calm herself down from another break down.

[Skittakallista]

She was clearly very stressed, Auni thought, as she was breathing very deeply and shaking slightly. Well, he had sort of come out of no where. "Why are you so stressed about your brother? Sorry to confront you like this, but I usually find the solution to problems is to talk about them." He sat down. "And if he was bad or anything, like my brother, you should know you have me and Tanga and your siter to protect you."

He gazed up at the sky, praying to his mother for some guidance to help Imani. One particular star, big and brilliant, seemed to wink down at him. He smiled, then looked back at Imani. "Tell me. It may make you feel better."