[PRIVATE: DGFone & Thewhistlerify]

[DGFone]

Delano opened his mouth to argue, but didn't say anything. It did take them a long time to get here, and the night will be too cold walk in. "Alright," he said, trying not to sound too disappointed. "Let's go..." He slowly got up to his feet, grunting at the effort it took. He finally stood up, blinking as he regained his bearing. Delano didn't remember the last time getting up was this hard.

The last thing he wanted to do now was once again do the long walk back, but they needed to get back to the den somehow. Not knowing what else to do, he took an uneasy step forwards.

((After today, I won't be able to post for a week. Sorry.))

[TheWhistlerify]

About a month later

Lina opened her eyes and let out a yawn, soon taking into account that it was still a part of what was usually considered to be the early morning. Delano was still sleeping soundly next to her. She didn't know how long exactly it would take for him to wake up, but when he did she would ask him how he was feeling (regarding his leg). It has been getting better and better with every passing day and it was most likely to be completely healed anytime soon. She still asked him whether it was any better on a regular basis though.

[DGFone]

Delano stirred when Lina woke up, also letting out a yawn. Blinking, his eyes fell on Lina, and he smiled at her. "Good morning, Lina," he whispered to her. Rolling over onto his stomach, Delano slowly stood up, stretching and groaning loudly in satisfaction. It felt great to be able to move around on his own again, something that Delano had been desperately wanting to do for a long time now.

"Hey, if we wake the others, we can go somewhere!" Delano said, not bothering to hide his excitement. "What do you think?" He nudged Lina, wanting to get her up quickly as well.

[TheWhistlerify]

Lina couldn't help but grin as she saw Delano get to his feet as soon as he had woken up. Even though he had been recovering mentally as well with the passage of time and had a better mood every day it was still great to see him finally acting like himself again. There was no doubt that he was happy to be able to move around again. "I would love that." she said with a chuckle, getting up as well, "But can you?" yesterday his leg still hurt a little bit every now and then, and even though it didn't bother him too much she still wanted to make sure that he was feeling perfectly fine, even if it did look like he was from the looks of it.

[DGFone]

Delano grinned when Lina got up as well. "Yeah, I'll be fine!" he reassured Lina, "I mean, we really wanted to go somewhere for a long time now, and I feel like I can really do it this time." He never forgave himself for pushing himself so hard when his leg was still broken that he passed out, and had wanted to make up for it ever since. "I'll just go slower if I have to, but I really want to go. It'll be great!"

He moved over to Muroki and Umeme, who were both still asleep and nudged the two of them. "Come on, you two, wake up! We need to go!"

[TheWhistlerify]

Lina smiled at Delano, feeling glad that he was finally able to move around without even the slightest discomfort. Muroki's eyes shot wide open when Delano nudged him. Clearly it was not the most pleasant way to wake up. "Okay, okay! We're up!" he sighed as Delano made his way back towards Lina. "I think I liked it more when he could barely move around..." he whispered to Umeme in a joking tone. Of course that he was happy that his brother's leg was healed. Delano's excitement somehow reminded Muroki of when the two of them were still cubs.

[DGFone]

Umeme rubbed her eyes in order to try and wake up. "Yeah, we got to sleep in when your brother couldn't do anything," she complained, but got up anyways as well. "So where do you want to go?" she asked Delano.

Delano ignored the complaints and went over to Kasi in order to get his cousin up. "I thought we can go to the waterhole again," he said, "after all, the last time we tried, it didn't work out so well..." He kept prodding Kasi until his cousin started to groan and move around. When he was certain that everyone were up, he moved back to Lina.

"The sun's hardly up," he said, as though excusing why he was waking everyone up. "it's the perfect time to go!" With his leg much better now, he also felt better mentally and was much more energetic. "Come on!"

[TheWhistlerify]

Muroki couldn't help but grin at his brother's enthusiasm. "We're coming, we're coming." he began to follow him alongside the others, and he wasn't surprised to see Delano rushing forward, only to stop once he realized that the others were falling behind him. It reminded Muroki of the times where Delano dragged him onto one of those little adventures when they were little, during which Delano would always rush forth and then come back towards his brother, who was walking and not running, in order to urge him forward. Thinking about those happy time made him chuckle.

[DGFone]

Hardly able to contain his excitement at being able to go somewhere, Delano often found himself having to wait for the others to catch up to him after he would rush forwards. As he waited yet again for Lina to get to him, he grinned at her. "Better than last time, right?" he asked playfully, "now you guys don't have to wait for me." He gave her a quick lick, to show her how much he now enjoyed being with her. "And we're almost there, too!" He looked up to see where Umeme and Muroki were, and was somewhat surprised at how far behind they were. But Kasi was even worse. "Come on, Kasi! Hurry up!" Delano called back.

Kasi, who was perfectly fine in the back, grumbled and ran a bit to catch up to Umeme and Muroki. "Remind me again why it was a good idea for you guys to seek my help," he teased, "now we have to deal with him now that he is fine!"

[TheWhistlerify]

Lina giggled when Delano licked her, but she still didn't feel like running only to have to stop and wait. Even if the others did run as well, she didn't really feel like running there since the whole point was to spend some calm time together. She had to admit that she missed the energetic Delano a lot. Muroki couldn't help but chuckle at his cousin's comment. "It's not that bad." he said jokingly. He was more useful to Delano's over-cubbish side, but he knew that Kasi was just kidding.