by AustralianChaos » July 9th, 2010, 4:00 pm
Tanga chuckled at Dixon's comment...although the earlier quip about too many making him ill went a long way into putting him off the fruit.
He decided, in the end, that he might as well give it a try, and took a tentative, but sizable bite into the fruit, jerking his head back as his muzzle was covered in the juices that lay inside. He almost gagged at the sweet taste the fruit left in his mouth, but perservered through it and swallowed, shivering as the taste lingered on his tongue.
He looked up at Dixon, managing a weak smile. "I think I prefer the meat..." he did a double take on the taste, and found that he was already starting to get used to the sweetness. "...but I could eat the fruit in a pinch, I guess."
Deciding against easting the rest of the fruit, not wanting to test how much of the stuff he could handle without getting sick. Dixon limited himself to one a day, but Tanga was much smaller, therefore surmised that a lot less would make him sick.
He sat in fron of Dixon, alternating his gaze between his paws, which were shuffling in the grass in nervousness, and Dixon's head, which sat a long way above Tanga's. Tanga was curious about Dixon's size, but did not know how to bring it up without possibly insulting the white lion.
In the end, he decided to bring up a different subject. "I've never seen a lion quite like you, before...how'd you get the white fur?" he asked at long last.