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Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2015 7:30 am
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Kala had been practicing her hunting skills. At first she had stalked her sister, but after a while Ku’e had gotten fed up with the game and refused to participate. So instead Kala had discovered and promptly recruited a little brown lizard as her target. The creature may have been much smaller than her, but it was fast and she spent more time chasing it down than stalking it. Panting hard she raced after the brown streak, its weird waddling run far faster than it seemed it should be. Suddenly a pair of tall yellow legs loomed out of the grass and she veered wildly to the side, loosing her footing and went tumbling head over tail.
Skidding to a halt she sat up, dazed and disorientated. While she and her sister had been growing well, now that they were being fed on a regular basis, their early lack of nourishment so soon after birth had slowed both of them down. Kala was now reaching adolescence, but was often still mistaken for being younger. Though she knew she was still considered a cub, she was starting to develop an awareness about the pride that she had so far lacked. Namely that she and her sister were generally given a wide birth, even by the other youngsters. And muttered comments stopped when she drew too close. She had also started to notice the sideways glances of the older lionesses, and while she had no idea what they were about, she had realised that something about herself and her sister was different.
Now having completely lost her lizard playmate, she stood and shook herself free of dust. Yellow legs! Curious and knowing she really should apologise for almost colliding with who ever it had been, the young blue female padded back the way her tumble had taken her.
Wow.. he was big. Not as big as her dad, but then she recalled her father from the day he had left them with their grandma. Peering up at the large yellow male she smiled brightly. A gentle girl she always tried to make friends, despite the cold shoulder many of the pride seemed to prefer.
“Hi there. Sorry ‘bout that’”
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