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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 11:05 pm
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Ima was lost in the thoughts of his continually growing family as he headed back. Sometimes he wondered about the family that he himself was creating with K'visha. Thinking about growing up with his mother and brothers, he laughed to himself, he didn't think that he would know what to do if he were to have five boys all at once. Well, he had seen the people in the pride as they successfully raised cubs everyday.
When he began to get close to the den, he smiled as he approached and saw a certain beybanu standing by the tree that stood near it. The very sight of her made him work harder, made him want to become a better pad every day. Ima gradually came close to her and briefly looked into her eyes before rubbed his head against her's with a low and slightly tired, "Hey."
The sun was still out, but it had reached the other side of the sky and was slowly descending behind the trees and the sky was turning a light orange. "How are you?," he asked as he normally did, heading toward the den. This was always his favorite part of the day, when he came back and K'visha was there.
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Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 4:44 pm
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Smiling widely, he responded with a slight shrug, "It was pretty uneventful, the borders were undisturbed as usual. The most that we found was a hyena sleeping a little too close by," he trailed off and then looked at her, "but, I don't know, there was a pad there whose banu can see and she had some crazy vision about the pride being in danger. Although, nothing seems to be happening, so everything should be alright."
Ima found himself expressing his concerns to K'visha more as he rapidly grew closer and closer to her. Leaning against the wall of their den, he sighed and unceremoniously slumped into a sitting position and relaxed next to his beybanu. Ima had noticed that K'visha seemed to be a bit on edge today, so he waited for her to bring up whatever was on her mind.
Even though her unusual behavior concerned him, Ima didn't want to bother her about it if she didn't want to be, so he waited. So when she finally eluded to her thoughts, he sat up and paid attention to her as her anxiety seemed to grow. "What is it K'visha? What did you want to ask me?"
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 7:44 pm
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Ima was very curious about what K'visha had to say. Her body language was sending all manner of nervous energy toward him. When she finally spoke about wanting a family, Ima's eyes widened in a mixture of surprise and joy. Ima had been perfectly content in all the time that they'd been living there together, not wanting to rush anything. Although, he couldn't say that the thought hadn't crossed his mind a few times. Slowly, a large grin began to spread across his face as her words sunk into his heart.
She was ready to start a family with him. She wanted to start a family with him. He would be a father for the first time in his life. He would finally get to experience the "horror" of parenthood that he'd heard about from his own parents. Not knowing exactly what to say, he stuttered in his elation, "R-really? You do? I would love to have cubs with you......I've always wanted a family," he looked down in thought before saying, "Now that I have you with me, there isn't anything that I would want more. I....don't exactly know much about raising children, but I know we could do it. Besides, I have tons of relatives that would be happy to help us if we needed it."
The thought was making him more and more happy. Gazing into their den, he could just imagine small combinations of them wreaking havoc and flipping their lives upside down. As disturbing as the thought would had been to him a long time ago, it only enhanced the desire to build a family within him. He found that his face was permanently frozen in a smile as the thought filled his mind and made everything else seem trivial.
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Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 3:32 pm
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Any worry that Ima had felt concerning his homeland had gone away in the light of the prospect of children with his beybanu. Ima believed in the force and strength of their pride, and was sure that they could defend it from any threat that might come to them. Laying against K'visha's warm body, and let her words wash over him. He had never known a relationship quite like the one that he had with her. He hadn't known what to expect of life with a beybanu, but from what he was experiencing, he couldn't have asked for anything better.
"We'll be amazing parents," he told her in response. K'visha was such a wonderful person that he was more than sure that she would have nothing but a positive affect on their children. On one side of things, he didn't know why she had been so nervous to ask him about such a thing, but on the other side, cubs weren't to be taken lightly. Just from growing up, and from seeing his family dynamics, Ima knew that their work would be cut out for them, especially for K'visha since she would be with them much of the time while they were very small.
"They definitely wouldn't be wasting their time." As their day drew to a close, Ima rested his head near her chest, listening to her heart beat. He felt calm and at a peace that he had only ever know laying near his mother as a young boy. A grin once more crossed his face as he thought of the sons and daughters that they could have.
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Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 8:46 pm
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