Seems We're All Looking }{ ALL

[Bhu ♥ Irwin]

Some of my fantastizing of the man ended ubruptly when he told me not to care for the child simply because she was not my blood. I scowled, pulling away from his caresses in frustration. "Oh, do learn some boundaries." I spat at the man, curling my way to stand between beast and child. The girl seemed agitated herself, so I knew I was reacting approprietly. It was strange, looking to the little girl for approval. But she was smarter; I was humble enough to admit that.

"Dio punishes for our sins." I snapped angrily when the man dared question my god. "You have no right to downplay him." I huffed defensivily, mentally pushing him away. No one who said such rubbish about Dio was to be any part of my life.

[Bokor]

I pulled away at her harsh retaliation. My grin turned to a sympathic smile of reasurrance, as if it were my duty to lull a kitten from the tree branch it cowered upon. Yes, I was the fireman and these poor saps were stuck in a tree. How nice a connection to make. I really am a clever God. My gentle smile converted to a smirk. "Now now, don't be so hasty to push me away." I bowed down my skull to eye the tiny beast that was now hidden by the woman's bulk. "You need proof of my power, wise little girl?" I waited for no answer. I would share with her my own wisdom, force myself into her vision by making her know that no secret was safe.

The Gods kept nothing from me.

"Little South," I bucked my eyebrows as I said her name, as if flaunting the fact that I knew such information without her telling me. "Your father and brother are not gods. This mission your father has sent you on is a merciless one. There is no heart. Your father has sent you into the dragon's mouth. That doesn't sound very fair." If I win the child, I win the lioness.

I knew much of the Compass Children and their mission. My gods had blessed me with the tools to do my homework. They had given me North, who was eager to spill his stories and claim his fame as the Brain. But little South need not know that the gods worked through her brother to guide me. People like her thought such things to be coinicedence.

Ha!

[Kunabee]

South

I let out a vicious snarl. How dare he, how dare he speak bad of my father and brother! How DARE he assumed he knew me! He could have found that information anywhere. He could have discovered it through myths and rumors, or North himself, or West or East; anyone or anywhere. I dared not believe that he just knew.
If he simply KNEW this information, then everything I and this kind lioness believed was for naught. It made me even angrier that he dared say the search for the heart was wrong. The heart could not be wrong, the heart WOULD NOT be wrong. The heart did exist. I thought of my own body, how I had a heart. I thought to all the experiences. My siblings and I were missing something: the heart.
Silence, wisdom, resolution, and order needed the heart. They needed compassion, or perhaps the hunt was for courage. Whatever it was, my father would NOT send us on some fruitless search! There was a heart, a heart that would be found, and none of the lies this monster fed me would change that.
I growled again, wanting to claw the fur of this ba****. How dare he. How dare he.
All of a sudden I calmed. I gave a vicious, cruel smile for him. Oh, I knew what game he played. He played the game of persuasion, like us all. But this time, the game would blow up in his face. Perhaps Yanamai would be a good companion for a while. I longed for company. And she, she would be my mouth, and I the ears as always. We could spread the news of his lies, if she would go with it.
But that was a future, and this was the present. My smirk disappeared, turning back to snarls and growls. I marked a messy "X" in the ground. 'You don't know anything about anyone,' I thought, 'You just guess and get it right enough to manage. But trust me, luck doesn't last for ever.'
No, luck never lasts forever, and his would one day run out.

((wooc)) South is rather interesting to roleplay. I'm very found of her. Especially because she changes from very mature to very childlike a lot. =D

[Bhu ♥ Irwin]

Ooc//: I am beginning to fall in love with her, too. That may have been one of the best posts you've done for any character! LOVE it.

The young one beside me seemed inflamed at the man's words. Were they all true? It was strange that he knew her name, but was all the information surronding it true, also? The heart? A mission by her father? How barbaric! South was an intelligent little girl, it was clear said in her eyes, but to send children on their own on a mission is sensless and immoral. Oh great! Now I, a child at the very center of it all, must keep dear South. And find her siblings to keep them, too. Even Ezhno was not so foolish to give cubs a mission. He would just kill them mercifully. But this man that bore this child was a cold one. He was not able to care for children.

I hated that I looked to South with sympathy as the man began speaking. I knew what it was like to have a father who doesn't love you, but for him to claim he is a god and then dismiss you to your death is all the worse. Could what this man said be true? South drew an "x" to indicate it wasn't but, being a female, I was born with a mother's intuitiveness. The girl was lying. But would her little "x" be enough to make the beast second guess himself?

Looking back to him, I tried to read his expression. "You think you know us, but you are far from the truth. I saw this girl's father and mother get killed by Folami with my own two eyes. They had gone to help in the war between the prides, and a great beast, I think the Alpha of Zonta called her Bee, slaughtered them. Wretched creature." I paused momentarily as if the flashbacks were too much to bare. "Young miss here ran off to find her siblings, whom had scattered at the mauling of their parents." I looked to the girl with a quiet little question in my eyes.

'Sorry.' I hated lying. But sometimes it is the right thing to do, right?

[Bokor]

Ah, so they'd team up and play hard to get. I eyed them both with mock uncertainty, reading their guarded expression and false histories, I gave in. Fine. I was not admitting defeat, but I would step back and take this more slowly. This world was not nearly as big as cats seemed to think. I could find a needle in a haystack, so I could surely find these two woman in these terrains.

"Alright, I'm game." My smile broke forth again, masking my frustration at their stubborn nature. I went to turn as I caught a glimpse of the sky through a crack in the upper tree layer's entertwining arms. The atmosphere at grown electric, but I'd been oblivious in my attempt to lure these woman to salvation. "Ah, but at least let me be a gentleman and bring you to shelter." The gods worked with me, rumbling a clap of thunder as I ended my offer. A bolt of lightening lit across the darkening air as the world slowly rumbled from the approaching storm.

"A great evil has left us, and the gods are happy for its blood."

[Kunabee]

South

Ah, Yanamai was smart. A gave a subtle slip of my paw in a 'yes' gesture at her made-up story. As she said the story, I of course reacted as one would to such horror - reliving it with even the most gentle, careful, and innocent of words. I sniffed, skilled at my acting, and rubbed a paw across my head.
My eyes narrowed as this Bokor idiot made his offer; then, as the lightning struck, I jumped, my tail fluffed straight out. I had never heard such a noise, and then a faint memory of gunshots ran in my head ---
That was long ago. Long, long ago.
I calmed down as Bokor said the next words. Well, I calmed down as in not being scared. I was still as angry as I was at the first. He knew nothing. He understood nothing. What he believed was a lie. It was a lie because no truth-teller would manipulate and persuade like he did. One moment he was on the aggressive; the next, he was on the defense. Once he was claiming things (that were true, but I'd never admit that); then right after he ceded to us liars.
I told more truths then him, and I denied the wrongness of North, of my father - of myself. Yes, I was wrong. I knew I was wrong. I could speak. I felt the vocal chords aching in my voice, begging to be used. But I would not, because I believed.
Ah, belief; aren't you tricky and bitter. Belief with all its delusions and lies. I was an atheist if I was true to myself; I was raised to believe in this cult, therefore I did. But I didn't, not really. There was no heart other then the one we made ourselves. My siblings could take care of themselves, if they only tried... and were taught independence. I could take care of myself; there was no need, no want - not even want - to truly go back to them.
But I believed. I believed in a heart, I believed that my father was God; I believed this Bokor was a liar and master manipulator, and I believed that Yanamai should be able to be deluded into her belief of Dio.
And this Bokor was willing to kill. I could smell it on him, hear it with his words. He would kill. He had killed before, killed even children; killed adults. I would not be another of his lies. I would not fall for it, not a single word.
He would not kill me, North, West, or East. And I would defend Yanamai so he could not kill her either.

[Bhu ♥ Irwin]

OOC//: May I lock and move this thread, guys? I like ending on dramatic posts, and South's silent declaration to protect Yanamai makes me all warm and fuzzy

[Kunabee]

((wooc)) I'm good by it (: South makes me happy.
I'll be shoving her in another roleplay soon

[Bokor]

OOC//: Sounds fair I will have Bokor nom on these two ladies again soon