Private w/ Adofo

[Iri]

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"Oh? You just get a feeling? Well, then, your feeling must be wrong. Because I don't do niceness, nor do I have a 'kind heart'," Chaltuu replied, her eyes narrowed and her head held high proudly. "I only saved you because you saved me." She had only saved twice before- once rescuing her baby sister, Ua, from a young honey badger that seemed to have been preparing to hunt the tiny white cub. Kapuki and Shujaa had been asleep and Chaltuu, being the typical nocturnal lioness, had noticed the small mammal as it dashed forward, preparing to sneak off with the minute infant. Did that even count as "saving" someone? The other time had been when, ironically, she had had to shove Shujaa out of the way of a rockslide, with the help of Kapuki, and that was when their last straw, their final scuffle before their departure, had occurred.

[Adofo]

Adofo: Okay. Sorry.
Adofo began to walk in the direction he hoped led to his home

[Iri]

As the grumpy, cold lioness padded after the tall bipedal human- although due to her massive, bulky size, she wasn't dangerously shorter than him. Though she didn't necessarily want to do it, she was sure she could take him on in a battle. She wondered what his home was like... He had described Pride Rock like some idyllic, tranquil paradise. Her own former home had been cold, harsh, uneventful... Not typically the best or safest place to be around. Despite the fact that it had hurt, being exiled and kicked out might have been the best thing that happened to her since then. No more dealing with emotional and physical harm, from her family and her peers. Despite her will to stay silent, she couldn't help but grunt, "What does Pride Rock look like?"

[Is Adofo married with kids and such already?]

[Adofo]

(Not yet. Right before all that)

Adofo: Its a nice, wide open space! You can see clearly for miles around! Tons of animals everywhere you look! And the land itself is just so amazing to look at that you'll be staring at it for hours!

[Iri]

"Why's it called the Pridelands?" Chaltuu inquired, her voice a low, brusque grunt as per usual. She could hardly remember what her father's territory had been called, and she didn't care to do so. Perhaps it had been called the Hatari-Makucha Pride, or maybe the Adhabu-Ngumu Pride. Whatever it had been labeled as, it was dead to her now. Calling a home the Pridelands seemed relatively strange... Was it named after the pride of lions inhabiting the area? Or the fact that they were all proud of their heritage? She heard her stomach rumble slightly, interrupting her thoughts and musings. She and Adofo could catch something later, perhaps. While she did feel faintly hungry, she wasn't starving... The bird she had eaten earlier had only temporarily satisfied her. After all, being the filled-out, hefty lioness she was, she had a fairly ravenous appetite.

[Adofo]

Adofo: Well.....my great great great grandfather said that he was proud of his beautiful land and all its people! ...His mate heard what he said and she thought of the name Pridelands! And the rest is history

[Iri]

Still a weird name... Chaltuu thought with a derisive snort. At least in the pride she had once lived in, the name to it had a meaning, however forbidding and severe it was... She wondered what life was like there- Adofo had described it as some paradise, a blissful nirvana. She wouldn't ask, though. She didn't want to hear some life story. After all, he had tried to tell her about his feeling outcast when she had never really asked or cared. Despite the fact that she would never admit to it, she could relate to being shunned and alone. After all, her horribly prejudiced and superstitious pride not only rejected her due to the "cursed red fur" that apparently symbolized bloodshed and war, but thought she was odd due to her unusual build, at least in that specific pride. Most lionesses in her former home had been small and slight and "pretty", like her sisters- but Chaltuu was none of those things. But at least Adofo had his brother, according to him. Someone he was close with. Presumably he had more family and friends, considering how fondly he spoke of his home.

[Adofo]

Adofo wondered what was going through her mind. She hardly talked and she didn't want to talk about much anything. He found her a bit curious.

[Iri]

The russet lioness found it a little easier to think about her sisters now... Perhaps it was because she knew that her thoughts drifted towards them almost all the time and she had slowly grown a bit more used to it. Besides, despite their departure, she wouldn't ever be able to really forget about them. Shujaa's naive, cheerful nature, while sometimes irritating with her upbeat attitude, had had Chaltuu occasionally finding it endearing. Although it had been so long ago, Chaltuu did recall Kapuki as a cub- mischievous and sometimes a stubborn little troublemaker who got herself into trouble often... But she didn't remember much about Ua... Well, other than that she was shy and skittish, and she was the puniest cub Chaltuu had ever seen, she was the runt of all four of the sisters. Even as a child, Chaltuu had been a relatively large cub- for her age, at least.

[Adofo]

Nighttime was coming soon. Adofo wondered where they should stop and rest for the night.
Adofo: It's getting dark. We should probably find a place to stay for the night, soon.