Cry Me a River, White Lioness Alone

[Redhead18]

Luka opened a lazy eyelid, seeing a fish below her in the stream, wiggling against the current. With amazing speed and agility, she swipped a paw at it, sending it flying out to land on the dry bed. It flopped around, its mouth gasping in the oxygen environment.

The white lioness got up slowly, and padded over to end the poor insignifiacte life of the fish. She finished it relatively slow, taking her time as she always did.
A fishbone hung from her lips, Luka hwing on it absentmindedly. She was getting bored. She hadn’t seen any evidence of lions in this oasis in the dessert. She flippe her styled hair to the other side, her soft green eyes looking into the water again for any more fish.

She dipped a crème paw intot he cool little stream, then rolled over to expose her white belly to the sun. A cat nap would be good, but it was always better to do it with a pride on a lazy afternoon such as today. Closing her eyes, she drapped her paws over her chest, tail flicking ever so often.

[Kazani]

At last she had made it to her stop off befor the Pridelands. Taking a flying leap, she splashed into the stream sending water everywhere. The golden lioness stood up in the current, barely able to keep her lightweight form held against it. Ruddy bangs draped in front of her face. With a paw she swept them out of the way so her hazel eyes could see. "C'mon guys! The water's fine!" Of course, her leopard friend was more favorable of water than she was anyways.
Kara dipped one foot into the water. Slowly, the meerkat slipped into the shallow water by the edge. She wouldn't go much further in. "Is the current strong, Amber?"
She looked up. "Sorta," she answered more distracted by the glittery scales of fish. Eventually, she noticed another lioness upstream. "Hiya!"

[Redhead18]

Luka opened her pale green eyes to look down the stream. She rolled over onto her pale tummy, her tail thumping against the ground in curiosity.
Young ones.
A lioness of rich bright copper, and a strange smaller creature. Both were in the stream, the smaller one closer to the bank.
“ Afternoon. My name is Luka.”She replied with a purr.
She rubbed a paw at her face, then proceded to clean herself, being cautious of her eyebrow and nose peircing.

[Kazani]

"I'm Amber! And that's Kara, and that's Zyla." She wavered a paw at the leopardess and meerkat. Her eyes caught on the piercings as the sun glinted on them. They were interesting... Amber lunged out of the stream and sploshed into the mud. Mud was preferred over water to her. It felt good beneath her light paws. The lioness gave her coat a shake. Again, she had to move her 'bangs' out of her eyes and to the side.
It made her a bit nervous to be so close to a lion, aside from her pal of course. Unlike her friends, most felines tended to eat meerkats. Kara was a bit hungry herself. But she wouldn't ask. It might remind Luka that she ate her kind.

[Nikita Moonlight]

(Sorry that's so big)


Liam had been watching from a distance. He was waiting for the perfect moment to come and introduce himself. He smiled and walked over to where the they were. "Hi, I'm Liam." He tried to make himself look stong.

[Redhead18]

Luka eyed the smaller mammal as she washed her face. Too small to make a meal of. She shrugged her shoulders at the pitiful creature wondering silently to herself why a lioness, a pantheress and a meerkat would be together.

She nodded to eat at the introduction to their names, staying silent.

Suddenly, a male lion came forward and Luka’s eyes were drawn to his trio scars on his right eye and shoulder. Ears went up at his voice, but she laid them flat soon after.

She didn’t take kindly to males. Show offs. All of them. And he was younger than her too, not by much. His thick mane made him look larger and older. She held back a growl replacing it with her name.

“ My title is Luka.”

She sat on her haunches, back straight as she stretched a crick in her spine. The passing warm wind ruffled her side mane, and she had to push it back in place with a tainted white paw.

[Nikita Moonlight]

"Nice to meet you, Luka." Liam smiled and walked over to the river to get a drink. The cool water felt good. He tested the water with his paw but decied against going in. Instead he walked back to where Luka was and sat down. "What do you do for fun around here?"

[Redhead18]

Luka turned her head away as he drank, but looked at him with wide pale green eyes as he sat next to her. Most males got the clue to back off. Obviously this one didn’t.

“ I sleep. I hunt. Not always in that order mind you.”

She rolled on her back, putting more space between them. She looked over at him,
looking at his scars over his eye.

“ How did you get those?”

she asked casually.

[Nikita Moonlight]

"I got them in a hunting accident." Liam hated the scars over his right eye and shoulder.. He would get stares and questions about them. "So, what's with the jewelry, Luka?" He said casually trying to change the subject

[Redhead18]

The feline looked up at the male, slitted eyes opening a bit at his question.

" Humans. As a young adult I was captured after I left my Pride. I was their pet till I killed their dog. The youngest female wished to have me released instead of killed. They did the peircing to me while I lived in their village."

She rolleed back onto her belly before getting up to walk into the stream.

The water was cool against her sun warmed hide, and she waded in up to her belly. She drank some, the liquid running gently down her patched throat.

[Kazani]

She wasn't so bothered by the male. Of course, she'd been around the majority of creatures, big and small. He was nothing compared to tigons and tigers. She licked her chest fur, the shifting revealing her own scars. They were slight but there. Most of the time her fur covered them. It was rather interesting to hear about those human creatures. They were one thing she hadn't met, although, didn't want to. "The name's Amber," she said, cockily now. The lioness sometimes liked to show off in front of males. No, she wasn't interested in them. It was just her way of showing that girls were better and she was tough. Her pretty looks could be deceiving, indeed, she was a tomboy for sure.
The fact that another lion showed up didn't comfort her. Her blue eyes looked quickly for Zyla. The leopardess was more guarding of her. Amber would stick up and fight for her too. But Zyla guarded her before anyone made a move.

[Nikita Moonlight]

Liam spotted the meerkat that the leopardess was guarding. "If your worried, don't be. You're not even worth the trouble." He smiled and gave the meerkat a wink. "It's n nice to meet you, Amber. I'm Liam if you don't already know"

[Redhead18]

Luka nodded in agreement with the lion for the meerkat's sake. Th epoor thing was shaking with fear practicaly.

" Neither will I harm you. Your kind never did anything wrong to me, so why should I ?"

Luka grinned, a rare thing she ever did. She returned to have another drink, before wading back and forth between the distance of the lion and the small band of odd ones.

The floor of the bed was smooth with small pebbles, and she stared down intot he rushing stream. Her milky white paws where huge against the few fish that swam by.

[Nikita Moonlight]

Liam smiled and decided to stay with the lioness, leopardess and the meerkat. "I'm in the mood for fish. My treat." He had offered to get dinner. He hadn't done before maybe he was getting soft in his old age.

[Kazani]

Amber flopped over and rolled in the mud. She shook her head, "Nah. I don't eat fish." Usually, her eating habits had to be brought up at some time or another. It wasn't really typical of lionesses. But then, she was raised by Kara. So bugs weren't too bizarre in that case. Rarely, she would eat some real meat with her friend. The meerkat was present so she felt better not to.
That calmed her some. "Th-thanks." She wondered if Simmy had decided to come with them. Kara would feel more comfortable with another of her kind about. Shyly, she slipped a bit off from Zyla. It had been hard to go against instincts all her life, raising a lion cub and all.