Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2013 15:14:33 GMT -5
Ko
So the Alpha had business to attend to on his own, leaving Asha alone in Ko's company. Well, perhaps not alone. There were always spirits about, following and speaking to the Spirit Talker. It was around a campfire the two had been placed. Ko at one side and Asha upon the other. There would be no sleep for Ko at any time soon as the voices from beyond the Veil kept him stirred for the moment, though he was doing his best to ignore them. Perhaps a living voice was what he needed so he found his own. While setting a branch against the coals of the fire, Ko glanced up from his infernal study and over towards Asha.
"Is he always like that?"
Asha
Asha had actually found slumber in the moments before Isoba went off.. to wherever he went to. As if some odd sense, it was his departure that woke her. Slowly, mind you, her eyes came open to turn around that particular spot. Being that the Alpha had disappeared at night like that before? She wasn't wholly alarmed. Last time he came back with goods and grub, so it worked fine for her. Let the male actually go hunt something up. The thought had her lioness side touched by a grin.
Needless to say, her look around did indeed find the view of Ko, the odd, bug-eating Spirit Talker. In looking at him, there was a warmth in her eyes. A welcome that she'd extend to any member of her pride... though there could also be felt a particular sadness. It'd been there for some time. A melancholy of sorts.
Asha said nothing until Ko did, at which point the lioness drew a breath and laid back to the grasses and sparce sand.
"Like what?"
Ko
"He expected me to follow the two of you after your display of force... He did not ask for me to accompany you." The earthen brown eyes went back to watching the fire as he continued to stir and stoke the coals with the charred wooden poker. He was needing the stick to be piping red hot, forged by the campfire's touch. he had a mind to use it for something down the line in the conversation.
"He's lot to learn if he wants to be more than a bon bhat with a sharp stick." Was it his statement that made him smile or was it the words of the spirit on his shoulder that he nodded to abruptly right after? The grin didn't leave his face as he glanced across the top of the flames and over towards Asha. "Or do you believe I assume to much myself?"
Asha
Quieting for a moment, Asha listened and watched the strange Simba across the way. Her smile kept light, but fell to some degree as Ko continued. She assumed his words made him smile, knowing little to nothing of the spirits surrounding them.
"Isoba.. I cannot say I truly understand him. I have not known him long, or as much more than my late husband, Maalik's, best friend and brother. I can promise he means well, though." Her eyes, blue and steel meshed in to one color, watched up and past the fire, trying to meet Ko's gaze. "I mean that whole heartedly..." Pausing, she'd add in, "... but Isoba is a born leader. It is in his way to be as such--and I can only assume that the loss of Maalik hits him hard, harder perhaps than it does me. They'd been together all their lives, and he was unable to save Maalik. I feel it weighs on him conisderably." Would she go in to the full story of what happened? Perhaps. But everything had a time and a place.
Watching him with the stick, she quieted.. then added, "When it comes down to it, you seem as without a home and pride as we. It is dangerous to be so few in number--especially when just one. Isoba seeks to protect you. He is just... Isoba." She grinned slowly to Ko.
Ko
Both brows rose in unison. That was quite a short story and his instincts let him know there was more to it. But it wasn't his secret to ask for. It was her own to tell when she wanted to. When she quieted for that moment, his attention went back to the fire and the stick. Then she started again and stole his attention for the short statement. Alone and without a home. Ko smirked slightly and whispered something to his side in the Umbral tongue.
Ko was never alone. He may not be part of a Pride, but he was never alone. The poker had been singed at the tip and now had taken on the bright glow that he was wanting for it to have. At that point, he would stand up on his feet, holding the stick out to the side and up as if it were a torch. "While he may have intentions of seeing me safe... To collect me as a pride mate and ward... I am not alone. My home is the lands we reside in and no pride's territory lines bind me..."
The Spirit Talker walked around the campfire towards Asha and simply held the glowing poker towards her in offer of gripping the bottom handle as if he were offering a torch for her to hold.
"We are never alone, Asha Mayi of the Kgosi Pride." And if she took hold of the glowing-tipped stick, she'd see. Just as if a veil had been removed from her eyes, she'd see the spirits that had gathered around their campfire. Of Gazelle and Tortoise, of Locust and Vulture. They were with them for Ko spoke to many Jamak and all held his company with pride.
Asha
One eye narrowed, in slight, one he spoke in that foreign tongue. She'd never heard anything like it before, but the smirk in place on his mouth had her other eye narrowing, too. What did he say? She must have amused him somehow. Hmph.
Sitting up from her patch of grass, the tussled blonde folded the make of canvas pants in with her legs. Ankles crossed, one over the next, and the tops of knees gave her forearms a home. Atop that pile? Her chin. Asha played the part of listener again..
"No pride's territory protects you, either. You can eat all the bugs you like, Ko--but that doesn't make you any more than a single lion in the middle of nowhere." Smirk.
Then he continued, giving her a title she'd never heard before. Asha Mayi of the Kgosi Pride. From the Mayi pride to Maalik's pride and now Kgosi. For a short moment, she felt like an old trinket that had been passed around. Odd..
The oddness conveyed through her eyes and up to Ko, too--though it wasn't apparent if it was from thoughts or from the approach of one so curious, and maybe off his rocker, as he. Still, his words had to be given some merit. It's not like she could unsee the marvelous way he'd work to purge the watering hole. Regardless, there was a small bit of an awkward way when she went to reach for the stick's end. Pensive, Asha closed her hand about the sandy bark and took the offering, blues giving it a curious look.
... and then she extended her visions outwards...
Gasping rather audibly, Asha jumped up to her feet faster than she'd ever, spinning in place to look at one after the next, after the next!
Ko
The Spirit Talker could only offer a grin as he revealed a truth and secret to Asha. Welcome to his world. He turned slowly, looking out towards the spirits that had gathered and bowed his head in respect to the Jamak. His tongue took to the Umbral tone as he spoke to the Jamak, "Welcome and thanks be to you, Spirits. Worry not of her... She has never met any of you before." Ko wasn't worldly and probably hadn't traveled the Rayyan as much as they had. But he was walked with different company.
He would turn from the gathered Jamak and set a hand upon Asha's shoulder and gave her a dead stare in the eyes when he caught them in his gaze. "Calm yourself, they are not of the Unmaker. They have taught and guided me through my time without... And now they will aid us.. They will tell us secrets, be our eyes in the Shadow.." Truly friends of rarity indeed. How else would Ko have survived as such a lonely and lonesome lion in the middle of nowhere?
Asha
The poor lioness' heart was in her throat! How? What!? She had a zillion questions and thoughts that fell in to her mind so quickly that all of them cancelled each other out. Left behind? A blankness. Steel blue irises were hardly able to be viewed with out large her irises got, drinking in all there was to see. When he spoke again in that odd tongue, she'd look back his way, completely lost and shocked..
If it wasn't for his hand, she might have kept spinning in place, but no--she was left to watch in to his eyes completely. He'd caught her there with a voice that did just as its words wished. It calmed her. At least to an extent. Her heart still raced faster than the gazelle over the savannah, but at least he drew her back to the world. If it was indeed the... same world. Asha had her reservations on that.
The shoulder beneath his hand shuddered soft when her lungs finally pulled a breath, shivering their way out of fright and in to something of a shallow few breaths of survival, just in time to hear him speak on this. On all the spirits; his guides. In that one very moment, she understood what he meant then. He wasn't alone--not at all. Her eyes went between his, searching for something there perhaps, before her free hand went to touch at his chest. She steadied herself a little more, drew another breath and turned her sights back to the gathered spirits. She didn't know what to do.. and had a death grip on the burning-tipped stick.
"How long have you.. seen them..?"
Ko
"See them..? If I had seen them, I would have never questioned myself... No, since the First Change, I have heard them... They spoke to me, remaining hidden from my sight." Ko turned about, listening to the words of the Jamak as they made their jests and statements. It would only warrant Ko to smile for the time being. But at their request, Ko would turn and face Asha, taking the true sight stick from her hand, pulling the Veil over her eyes once more.
"In time, they will teach me the secret to see them at all times, but until then they wish to keep their privacy." The smoldering stick was then tossed in to the campfire. "They will teach you things, too... But as to what, I cannot say."
Asha
She watched back at him as he spoke, tipping her head in an ever feline way. When he pulled the stick from her grip, firing up her skin a little with the friction of that swipe, Asha's shoulders rose a little and she found herself backing away. Fingers and thumb worked the burn in her palm and eyes blinked as if to right themselves behind that 'veil.' A breath shivered over her bottom lip.
With his words being rather unsettling.. her, learning things from odd spirits about?... Asha had no words to add in. She processed these things, simply stepping off a bit more to lower on her heels and loop arms about her shins.
Ko
"Do not be afraid... I have managed to live as long as I have in keeping their company." The Spirit Talker kept his eyes upon Asha. She seemed uncertain as to what to think or believe. He would come to kneel before her, his haunch resting on his heels. "I take it you've not the experience with Spirit Talkers in the last Pride you were in?"
Asha
She heard him, but the words of comfort hadn't much reached her. Having seen all of that was rather out there, for her. Having returned her eyes to the fire, his look wasn't felt nor caught until Ko took position infront of her. Even then, her eyes found his though took a moment to focus there.
Eyes fluttered their lashes as Asha came to.
A soft breath left out into a few words. ".. no.. there is little I was allowed experience with." Pupils slid down and to one side. "My pride's King.." a pause, her brows rose and fell, "... my father, he kept me from most things." Including true self. Sure she'd known the change, but Asha had not been able to truly connect with the feline hidden just beneath her skin. Not until recently.
She picked up a curious note, looking back his way. "... you.. don't remember me, do you..?"
Ko
"You? You are not who you once were... I do not remember you, but a girl I do... She shares your face, your smell." Ko tapped at the side of his nose as if indication of memorable scent. "You are not the same person I chose banishment for." The Simba smirked then and rose to stand in front of her. He would turn and move back towards the fire, sitting down on his rump in a cross-legged position. His head turned and for a long time, his gaze was set to the darkness beyond the limitations of the fire light. He would nod in it's direction and then looked back towards the fire.
"I would do it again, Asha Mayi... You will always be for the greatest in station." For someone else or for her own? That was going to be up to her.
So the Alpha had business to attend to on his own, leaving Asha alone in Ko's company. Well, perhaps not alone. There were always spirits about, following and speaking to the Spirit Talker. It was around a campfire the two had been placed. Ko at one side and Asha upon the other. There would be no sleep for Ko at any time soon as the voices from beyond the Veil kept him stirred for the moment, though he was doing his best to ignore them. Perhaps a living voice was what he needed so he found his own. While setting a branch against the coals of the fire, Ko glanced up from his infernal study and over towards Asha.
"Is he always like that?"
Asha
Asha had actually found slumber in the moments before Isoba went off.. to wherever he went to. As if some odd sense, it was his departure that woke her. Slowly, mind you, her eyes came open to turn around that particular spot. Being that the Alpha had disappeared at night like that before? She wasn't wholly alarmed. Last time he came back with goods and grub, so it worked fine for her. Let the male actually go hunt something up. The thought had her lioness side touched by a grin.
Needless to say, her look around did indeed find the view of Ko, the odd, bug-eating Spirit Talker. In looking at him, there was a warmth in her eyes. A welcome that she'd extend to any member of her pride... though there could also be felt a particular sadness. It'd been there for some time. A melancholy of sorts.
Asha said nothing until Ko did, at which point the lioness drew a breath and laid back to the grasses and sparce sand.
"Like what?"
Ko
"He expected me to follow the two of you after your display of force... He did not ask for me to accompany you." The earthen brown eyes went back to watching the fire as he continued to stir and stoke the coals with the charred wooden poker. He was needing the stick to be piping red hot, forged by the campfire's touch. he had a mind to use it for something down the line in the conversation.
"He's lot to learn if he wants to be more than a bon bhat with a sharp stick." Was it his statement that made him smile or was it the words of the spirit on his shoulder that he nodded to abruptly right after? The grin didn't leave his face as he glanced across the top of the flames and over towards Asha. "Or do you believe I assume to much myself?"
Asha
Quieting for a moment, Asha listened and watched the strange Simba across the way. Her smile kept light, but fell to some degree as Ko continued. She assumed his words made him smile, knowing little to nothing of the spirits surrounding them.
"Isoba.. I cannot say I truly understand him. I have not known him long, or as much more than my late husband, Maalik's, best friend and brother. I can promise he means well, though." Her eyes, blue and steel meshed in to one color, watched up and past the fire, trying to meet Ko's gaze. "I mean that whole heartedly..." Pausing, she'd add in, "... but Isoba is a born leader. It is in his way to be as such--and I can only assume that the loss of Maalik hits him hard, harder perhaps than it does me. They'd been together all their lives, and he was unable to save Maalik. I feel it weighs on him conisderably." Would she go in to the full story of what happened? Perhaps. But everything had a time and a place.
Watching him with the stick, she quieted.. then added, "When it comes down to it, you seem as without a home and pride as we. It is dangerous to be so few in number--especially when just one. Isoba seeks to protect you. He is just... Isoba." She grinned slowly to Ko.
Ko
Both brows rose in unison. That was quite a short story and his instincts let him know there was more to it. But it wasn't his secret to ask for. It was her own to tell when she wanted to. When she quieted for that moment, his attention went back to the fire and the stick. Then she started again and stole his attention for the short statement. Alone and without a home. Ko smirked slightly and whispered something to his side in the Umbral tongue.
Ko was never alone. He may not be part of a Pride, but he was never alone. The poker had been singed at the tip and now had taken on the bright glow that he was wanting for it to have. At that point, he would stand up on his feet, holding the stick out to the side and up as if it were a torch. "While he may have intentions of seeing me safe... To collect me as a pride mate and ward... I am not alone. My home is the lands we reside in and no pride's territory lines bind me..."
The Spirit Talker walked around the campfire towards Asha and simply held the glowing poker towards her in offer of gripping the bottom handle as if he were offering a torch for her to hold.
"We are never alone, Asha Mayi of the Kgosi Pride." And if she took hold of the glowing-tipped stick, she'd see. Just as if a veil had been removed from her eyes, she'd see the spirits that had gathered around their campfire. Of Gazelle and Tortoise, of Locust and Vulture. They were with them for Ko spoke to many Jamak and all held his company with pride.
Asha
One eye narrowed, in slight, one he spoke in that foreign tongue. She'd never heard anything like it before, but the smirk in place on his mouth had her other eye narrowing, too. What did he say? She must have amused him somehow. Hmph.
Sitting up from her patch of grass, the tussled blonde folded the make of canvas pants in with her legs. Ankles crossed, one over the next, and the tops of knees gave her forearms a home. Atop that pile? Her chin. Asha played the part of listener again..
"No pride's territory protects you, either. You can eat all the bugs you like, Ko--but that doesn't make you any more than a single lion in the middle of nowhere." Smirk.
Then he continued, giving her a title she'd never heard before. Asha Mayi of the Kgosi Pride. From the Mayi pride to Maalik's pride and now Kgosi. For a short moment, she felt like an old trinket that had been passed around. Odd..
The oddness conveyed through her eyes and up to Ko, too--though it wasn't apparent if it was from thoughts or from the approach of one so curious, and maybe off his rocker, as he. Still, his words had to be given some merit. It's not like she could unsee the marvelous way he'd work to purge the watering hole. Regardless, there was a small bit of an awkward way when she went to reach for the stick's end. Pensive, Asha closed her hand about the sandy bark and took the offering, blues giving it a curious look.
... and then she extended her visions outwards...
Gasping rather audibly, Asha jumped up to her feet faster than she'd ever, spinning in place to look at one after the next, after the next!
Ko
The Spirit Talker could only offer a grin as he revealed a truth and secret to Asha. Welcome to his world. He turned slowly, looking out towards the spirits that had gathered and bowed his head in respect to the Jamak. His tongue took to the Umbral tone as he spoke to the Jamak, "Welcome and thanks be to you, Spirits. Worry not of her... She has never met any of you before." Ko wasn't worldly and probably hadn't traveled the Rayyan as much as they had. But he was walked with different company.
He would turn from the gathered Jamak and set a hand upon Asha's shoulder and gave her a dead stare in the eyes when he caught them in his gaze. "Calm yourself, they are not of the Unmaker. They have taught and guided me through my time without... And now they will aid us.. They will tell us secrets, be our eyes in the Shadow.." Truly friends of rarity indeed. How else would Ko have survived as such a lonely and lonesome lion in the middle of nowhere?
Asha
The poor lioness' heart was in her throat! How? What!? She had a zillion questions and thoughts that fell in to her mind so quickly that all of them cancelled each other out. Left behind? A blankness. Steel blue irises were hardly able to be viewed with out large her irises got, drinking in all there was to see. When he spoke again in that odd tongue, she'd look back his way, completely lost and shocked..
If it wasn't for his hand, she might have kept spinning in place, but no--she was left to watch in to his eyes completely. He'd caught her there with a voice that did just as its words wished. It calmed her. At least to an extent. Her heart still raced faster than the gazelle over the savannah, but at least he drew her back to the world. If it was indeed the... same world. Asha had her reservations on that.
The shoulder beneath his hand shuddered soft when her lungs finally pulled a breath, shivering their way out of fright and in to something of a shallow few breaths of survival, just in time to hear him speak on this. On all the spirits; his guides. In that one very moment, she understood what he meant then. He wasn't alone--not at all. Her eyes went between his, searching for something there perhaps, before her free hand went to touch at his chest. She steadied herself a little more, drew another breath and turned her sights back to the gathered spirits. She didn't know what to do.. and had a death grip on the burning-tipped stick.
"How long have you.. seen them..?"
Ko
"See them..? If I had seen them, I would have never questioned myself... No, since the First Change, I have heard them... They spoke to me, remaining hidden from my sight." Ko turned about, listening to the words of the Jamak as they made their jests and statements. It would only warrant Ko to smile for the time being. But at their request, Ko would turn and face Asha, taking the true sight stick from her hand, pulling the Veil over her eyes once more.
"In time, they will teach me the secret to see them at all times, but until then they wish to keep their privacy." The smoldering stick was then tossed in to the campfire. "They will teach you things, too... But as to what, I cannot say."
Asha
She watched back at him as he spoke, tipping her head in an ever feline way. When he pulled the stick from her grip, firing up her skin a little with the friction of that swipe, Asha's shoulders rose a little and she found herself backing away. Fingers and thumb worked the burn in her palm and eyes blinked as if to right themselves behind that 'veil.' A breath shivered over her bottom lip.
With his words being rather unsettling.. her, learning things from odd spirits about?... Asha had no words to add in. She processed these things, simply stepping off a bit more to lower on her heels and loop arms about her shins.
Ko
"Do not be afraid... I have managed to live as long as I have in keeping their company." The Spirit Talker kept his eyes upon Asha. She seemed uncertain as to what to think or believe. He would come to kneel before her, his haunch resting on his heels. "I take it you've not the experience with Spirit Talkers in the last Pride you were in?"
Asha
She heard him, but the words of comfort hadn't much reached her. Having seen all of that was rather out there, for her. Having returned her eyes to the fire, his look wasn't felt nor caught until Ko took position infront of her. Even then, her eyes found his though took a moment to focus there.
Eyes fluttered their lashes as Asha came to.
A soft breath left out into a few words. ".. no.. there is little I was allowed experience with." Pupils slid down and to one side. "My pride's King.." a pause, her brows rose and fell, "... my father, he kept me from most things." Including true self. Sure she'd known the change, but Asha had not been able to truly connect with the feline hidden just beneath her skin. Not until recently.
She picked up a curious note, looking back his way. "... you.. don't remember me, do you..?"
Ko
"You? You are not who you once were... I do not remember you, but a girl I do... She shares your face, your smell." Ko tapped at the side of his nose as if indication of memorable scent. "You are not the same person I chose banishment for." The Simba smirked then and rose to stand in front of her. He would turn and move back towards the fire, sitting down on his rump in a cross-legged position. His head turned and for a long time, his gaze was set to the darkness beyond the limitations of the fire light. He would nod in it's direction and then looked back towards the fire.
"I would do it again, Asha Mayi... You will always be for the greatest in station." For someone else or for her own? That was going to be up to her.