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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2021 15:35:56 GMT
Tara saw the question in Bili's gaze as Yun Mibu mentioned a ledge and gave a smirk that half made fun of herself and admitted that yes, he was right to wonder how she had exactly gotten into such a situation.
Man they'd both had to deal with the whole burying a parent thing, she almost mentioned her dad or asked where he had ended up burying his mom, but decided maybe it was best moved on from.
"Yeah, I know, someone like me who's not afraid of heights, but...I think that's how I got in the situation. I walked out on a ledge that couldn't hold me and thankfully my lucky pack snagged on a branch, but if Yun Mibu hadn't been able to provide a hand hold, or tail hold as it were, I don't know how or if I could have got myself back up". She gave the clouded leopard another grateful smile.
She then frowned thoughtfully as Bili brought up the trouble they might have with the others, by way of saying at least they were kids who could adapt to such things as animals helping them. "Yeah...and at least you will have a whole lion pride behind ya if they give us any trouble, and discover you".
She still intended to help keep that from happening, if she could, "And even if you not confronting them was best, I could always pull the fact that hey my dad literally gave his life to get them here to see the stupid city so...behave".
Easy to say now in hypothetical, which she admitted to with a small shrug, "Yeah I know they still won't listen to kids like us, but we can try".
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2021 15:36:45 GMT
Yun Mibu left it to Tara if she wanted to tell the perhaps embarrassing story of how she had ended up on the ledge, something she didn't shy from explaining. He smiled again at her thanks, "Happy to help, and when clouded leopards are known for climbing, how could I not?".
Again, even he could tell that the issue of these two younger ones was different than the adults of their group. "Oh...you really think they would cause trouble?", he asked, slightly worried.
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Post by Samwel Igwe on Feb 25, 2021 0:18:25 GMT
Kabili smiled a bit.
She made some great points. And he let Tara talk for a while. After all, he didn’t want to talk over her. His mom she always taught him to be polite and even listen to the word of others over his own sometimes. “Yeah. And my dad talks pretty widely. Hopefully they would listen,” he pointed out very politely. “I mean we may be kids but I’ve spent two months among the Pridelanders. I’d think they could at least trust my judgement based on that.”
When Yun Mibu asked if he really thought they would cause trouble, Kabili frowned. He really didn’t think of course that they would do it on purpose. Hardly, he figured it would be misunderstanding that might be their undoing. “I don’t think they’d do it on purpose,” he pointed out calmly. “They might object to my place here - but that’s only a problem until my parents handle it. Hopefully. But they don’t know of hunting laws or territory. And that’s where the problem is.”
It was the honest truth at this point after all. “I would be more worried they start something they don’t mean to. That’d be worse than a quick custody battle.” Even he could admit that.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2021 21:58:22 GMT
Tara let in Kabili's points too, and didn't want to doubt that a whole pride of lions could keep him safe. Even Dixon had to back down from that. "Yeah...I hope you're right, and like I said I'll help far as I can and, most effective no doubt, not many would tangle with your parents".
She grimaced and nodded as Kabili pointed out to Yun Mibu it wouldn't be on purpose, perhaps. "Humans sort of excel at Oops...", and that was not the half of it on the trouble possible, as the current war had proven, but Tara also didn't want it to turn her into a pessimist, "But there's good too, like Bili's other mom worked a lot to help animals".
And him of course, and she tried.
"But yeah, I don't think they'll get the Pride Lands being its own nation as it were, but maybe after a while they will". She also just didn't want friendly Yun Mibu to walk into trouble.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2021 21:59:02 GMT
Both Tara and Bili tried to explain that the trouble wouldn't be intentional. Yun Mibu listened and nodded. He thought he got it. It would just take some explaining and just be careful in the meantime.
He smiled as Tara said some of them were nice, "Well you two are the only humans I've met so far and you're both nice, but yes I'll be careful around the bigger ones".
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Post by Samwel Igwe on Feb 27, 2021 8:53:08 GMT
Kabili nodded his head.
At the very least there were a lot of good people in the world, despite how many bad ones there were. After all, it was like Tara said, his mom, his biological mom had been there to help and research other animals. He just hoped beyond hope that the ones that they would meet first, the adult ones at least were the friendly ones. "I mean, they still don't recognize a lot of human places as Nations," Kabili pointed out, as sad as that was. "Which is what the hard part is."
He crossed his arms and hummed a little. "But it's probably not a good idea to just borrow trouble. We can cross that bridge when we come to it, right?" He asked. "But speaking of adults, mom and dad are gonna want to meet you at some point. Since they're pretty worried about the whole human situation I think."
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2021 14:49:11 GMT
"Yeah, no need to worry over it and maybe even ruin what plans we should make by over stressing", Tara agreed in terms of the others.
Speaking of stress though...
It made sense the King and Queen wanting to meet her, or Tara told herself it did, still even if she had been being cared for by a clouded leopard...meeting a lion king and queen was a whole other issue! Even if she had some assurances they didn't eat kids in Kabili still standing there as their son even. "Yeah, I guess you're right", she nodded, "Though if I'm being completely honest I'm a bit nervous, though...they've gotta be alright right? If they took you in.".
She glanced to Yun Mibu, about to ask what he wanted to do.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2021 14:49:49 GMT
Both Tara and Kabili agreed the other humans could be left as a problem for another day. That worked for Yun Mibu as well. He nodded as Kabili explained about some nations even not being recognized. "That happens among us as well", he thought of the Backlands own unofficial territory system as well as Bandit's situation. Finding Tara had stalled him a bit but he had eventually found Varya and inquired on her own lands and other tigers she might know. She'd been isolated with just her children for a while though and didn't know of any other tigers, as he'd suspected.
Kabilli brought up that his parents would want to meet Tara and she turned to him, as if asking if he wanted to come along. Yun Mibu, wrongly, assumed he had nothing really to do with the situation, officially anyway and just nodded to her. "Why don't you meet with them first and I'll just wait and see if they also want to meet with me". Responsible as he now felt for Tara, he knew he could trust her with her friend, a prince in these lands even.
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Post by Samwel Igwe on Mar 1, 2021 21:20:18 GMT
Kabili noticed that both were nervous.
Not that he was shocked. Honestly, he'd nearly pissed himself when he first came to meet the king and queen. But obviously that had long passed, and he had quickly learned that the lions were hardly animals to be afraid of. Well, at least unless you were an Outlander or something of the like. Then you'd be right to fear them. "Nah, mom and dad are really nice," Kabili decided to sum it up. "Dad's kind of intimidating at first but he's a teddy bear really. He just takes his job really seriously - which is probably a good thing."
He turned to the clouded leopard before nodding. He had a feeling they'd want to talk to him too though, given they looked to be a package deal right now anyway. "They'll probably want to talk to both of you. Y'know, just because she's a "cub" and all," He explained. Not wanting to put him on the spot but being honest too. "Thank god the laws here aren't as crazy as social services and stuff though." He pointed out to Tara.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2021 14:42:56 GMT
Kabili reassured that his father was safe, and, well his alive and well status did account for much. She'd been through so much else by now she figured what was next meeting a lion, really? She nodded, "Alright, let's go". She then turned back to Yun Mibu to see if he had changed his mind and since, as Kabili had explained, the king would want to meet both of them.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2021 14:43:30 GMT
Yun Mibu just hadn't wanted to push his luck, but as Kabili brought up that as Tara's guardian they would no doubt want to meet him as well, he nodded. He would also feel better if he knew what was going on with the meeting, he supposed. "Alright", he followed along beside Tara as they both followed Kabili.
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