=--------------------------------------------------------------------------= ___ _ _ ___ ' | ` |__| |__` oooo | | | |__, .ooooo. o 88 ---------------------------------------------------- o8" `"o8 88 ooo oo888oo ooo ooo ooo oo ooo ooo ooo d8' " 88 8 ,8' `8. 8"8 8 8 o8' 8 8"8 8 d8 88 8 88 88 8 8 8 8o' 8 8 8 8 88 oooo 88 8 88 88 8 8 8 88o 8 8 8 8 88 di 88 ,o 8 `8. ,8' 8 8.8 8 `8. 8 8 8.8 `88. ,8i o88ooooo'o8o `"ooooo"' o8o o8o o8o `8o o8o o8oo o8 (c)"88oood' =--------------------------------------------------------------------------= The Lion King is copyright 1994 by the Walt Disney Company. This MUCK in no way constitutes a challenge to this copyright. =--------------------------------------------------------------------------= [ October 30, 2005 ] -- Uzima Valley -- Top of a Hill Standing atop this slightly raised part of the grassy savannah to the north, you can see down into a moderately large valley bordered on all sides but this one by a very steep, rocky ridge. From here, you can continue down the hill into the valley towards a herd of impala, peacefully grazing in the long grasses, go north out into the plains again, or go around the valley by climbing the ridge that from here, gently slopes upwards. Down the [N]orthern Edge of the Hill (defunc due to land loss) Down the [S]orthern Edge of the Hill You can see... [IC ] Kucha [IC ] Balana, up to her ears in a sea of cubs. [ZZZ] Tahlili [IC ] Chiboa, Balana's property! Yawn! Awaken! With a low rumble as she wakes up, Balana rolls to her stomach from where she snoozes on her side. Shaking her pelt out, she gets to her paws, looking quietly about the hillside. Chanika sits up, excitment at this change getting her moving from her own lounging and half-doze. She mewls a couple of times in loud greeting to her mother, something like a warning of what's coming before she barrels ove the short distance between then, head down as she concentrates on moving fast. Balana perks her ears as she hears a mewling... Ah, her daughter! She looks over, giving her a soft grunt in greeting. "Well hello there!" The lioness lashes her tail, pausing as she looks down at Chanika. What's the girl doing? Chanika narrowly avoids crashing right into Balana's foreleg, but stops just in time, plumping herself down on her rump with her still-rounded head tilted up to show a broad grin. She ran! So much for the mere toddling she had first figured out. Balana is quick to lift the paw to keep Chanika from crashing into her. That wouldn't do! Letting out a soft chuckle, she puts it back down once her daughter has gotten by, and she shakes her head softly. "You sillyhead." Leaning down, she flicks out he tongue to lick over her daughter's head. Chanika squirms with such enthusiasm that she rocks herself over on to her back. Nothing daunted, she goes on wriggling, eith her fluffy belly exposed, mutely asking for yet more petting and affection. She's a secure one, when not wailing for her due! Kucha glides through the area as he looks around to see where anyone might be, he heard that Tahzhoo and Kyoko had their cubs, but he's not had a chance to swing by just yet, and at the moment is hoping to see them outside of the cave. Seeing Balana below he gives out a kaw and begins to glide down below. Balana leans down to firmly nuzzle her daughter, gently lucking over her chestfur affectionately. "Yes, that's my girl. You're just the--" She's cut off by the sound of a familiar kaw, lifting her head and calling up towards the raven as she spots him. "Hello Kucha!" Kucha glides down into a tree above the group as he kaws out and smiles, "Evening Balana how are things going with you? The cubs okay?" he asks curiously as he looks over towards Chanika and calls out, "Hello there little one." Balana lowers to her haunches, grinning up at Kucha. "Yeah, they're doing alright. Just playing around with my daughter Chanika here." Chanika rolls herself on to her side to stare at Kucha, her eyes wide as she admires the highly visible shape of him, black showing stark against the grass. She blows out a bubbling breath around a mew of greeting, before looking back to Balana and batting at her with one paw. She never said what Chanika was just the! Visitors can't cut things off in the middle like that. Kucha smiles over to Balana and nods his head, "Cute little thing." he says with a slight chuckle, "So I heard...that Tahzhoo and Kyoko had their cubs, though I havn't had a chance to see them yet..." Balana chuckles slightly as Chanika bats at her, leaning down to return the nuzzle. "Okay! Okay! I didn't forget about you..." She perks an ear at Kucha, giving him a nod as she keeps nuzzling at her daughter. "They sure did. Four males and a girl." Chanika curls into a fuzzy cresent around her mother's paw. She eyes the light-furred toes with a slightly worrying sideways look, but refrains from chewing on them. Indeed, she is quieting down from excited wriggling and sound into inactivity, perhaps even suddenly near to sleep in that way of the young. Kucha gives a small nod of his head, "I would go over and say hi to the little girl...but after last time I think I will just enjoy the view from up here...rather then from UP close." he says with a slight giggle. Balana looks down at Chanika, laying down before she leans down to lick at the girl. "Tired, are you? Poor kid." She looks back up at Kucha, giving him a nod. "I understand, and I don't blame you." =--------------------------------------------------------------------------=