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She padded quietly through the pridal lands, her dark coat, tipped in bloody red and the palest white shimmered with the health and beauty of youth and upon her head strode the odd skull which she had attained as a cub and still carried with her. The skull wasn't always on her head but it was always on her some where, she had felt for the longest time that looking through the skull provided her with a different outlook on life and more to the point, made her a better huntress. She looks to her left and shakes her head, the tangerine coloured male hadn't believed her when she said it so she was out to prove it.



Lecky smiles wistfully, it had been a long time since a lioness had hunted for him and he wasn't about to be put off by the fact that this one looked almost scary with her odd garment of thick hair and a large skull upon her head. Lecky had been old for a long time, his mane scraggly and full of knots and his eyes glazed slightly with a film that showed eventually he would be blind and only able to fulfil his role by using his other senses. Still, this pride was one that stuck together and he appreciated that, he felt safe for the first time in a long time even if an odd haze clouded his old mind and messed with his senses, the shadows occasionally jumped at him, but they always had just not quite so vividly as they did now. "Lead on young lady, I'm right behind you." He says, his voice low and rough his smile widening slightly though the fur on his back prickled with the shiver that rolled down his back at the rippling shadows around them.

Volvagia smiles "Don't worry old one, I'll show you what a good huntress I am, my extra eyes help me, they show me the best things to attack."

The dark lioness paused mid step as she spotted the very brightly coloured female. For a long moment she wondered what to do, the lioness was very shiny, which she put down to her skull helmet. Her skull made some things very shiny! This lioness was just one of them. "You're very shiny." She states, saying it as if it was a truth her paws taking her closer to the bright green lioness "Very shiny indeed." She plonks herself down in front of the lioness and the sapling, her soft golden eyes peering through the dark hollow eyes of the skull helm, completely distracted by the shininess of the lioness. "Why are you so shiny?"

The soft orange male lion shakes his head, his golden mane falling around his cheeks, the knots and brambles sticking out of his tattered mane at odd angles. "I don't know you, and you aren't a shadow." He suggests to the green lioness, taking a step forwards, though he stayed on his feet he poked Volvagia on the butt with a toe "I thought you were hunting." He huffs looking around quietly at the gloom cast by the trees. "Are you hunting too?" He tilts his head, slightly to the left, looking off in to the near distance behind Jimbi to look at something moving behind her.

Volvagia continues to stare, her eyes almost hidden now, her skull had slipped just a bit, but she could see the shimmering green of the lioness before her. "You are shiny, I promise." She says turning her attention on the little tree, it was troubled? She couldn't hear trees, she could see the tree though and it was very dull, but a little shiny down the bottom. "i think you fixed it." She says simply turning her gaze back on Jura "I'm Volvagia, at the moment, until I change it to something better." she smiles looking at Lecky's paw with extreme confusion "I'm not shiny, but I was hunting, do you want to come and hunt? I'm a hunting lion, my skull helps." She grins, though her grin looked very strange half hidden under her lid.

"Yesyes, you're a hunting lioness, can we get on with it please? The shadows are shifting rather quickly around these trees, I don't approve of them at all." He humphs looking at the green lioness his gaze shifting to her shadow. "Your shadow is very suspicious lady green, very suspicious indeed." he grunts sitting down at last, it seemed hunting wasn't happening at the moment so putting his legs at ease seemed to be a sensible thing to do.

Volvagia grins broadly, her pale watery gaze looking over the lioness "Something furry and horny." She says quite simply as if that perfectly explained exactly what she was hunting, she had been following the scent of something with fur and horns, not tusks but definitely hoofy "It's definitely something hoofy. I'll find out when I find them." She grins her words were clearly supposed to be deciphered by whom ever she was speaking to. "My skull thinks they are thattaway," She pauses and points in some random direction "if you want to come, I can hunt for us all, I like making food for others, it makes them happy and full."

The large scraggly male shakes his head "Invite the whole pride why don't you? It's bad enough she has an odd shadow and all of these trees are making their shadows closer." He holds his breath for a moment and shakes his head, perhaps casting away the thought he had lingering there that something was definitely trying to get him from the shadows. "Stupid big shadows, nothing there" he mumbles under his breath casting his gaze away from the surrounding area and concentrating on the ground which wasn't nearly as scary shadow wise, after all, all he could see below him was his own shadow.

Volvagia rolls her eyes beneath her skull and snickers "I think that would take too long orange man. But I'm sure Jura would like to come, wouldn't you Jura?" she beams "If you don't mind leaving your tree for a little bit, he looks like he was in deep conversation with you." She hums, rocking on he heels and waiting for an answer.

Volvagia got to her paws and nodded "Good, follow me." She turns back in the direction she had been heading, her tail hanging low her head swivelling making the skull move in an almost mechanical manner. She grins a broad grin as she shifts in to a lower stalking pose "You two stay there, I need to be nice and quiet now."

Lecky rolls his eyes and follows after the two lionesses grumbling a bit, this was supposed to be a hunting trip for his belly not for everyones. He grunts and glares at the bright green lioness before putting his gaze back on the path before him. When told to stop, he flumps down on the ground and closes his eyes. Closing his eyes meant he didn't have to see the shadows that were crawling in closer to get him. Closed eyes were much better "As you say skull lady." He states waiting for Volvagia to return.

The dark lioness slips off through the tall grasses and shadowy trees, the herd wasn't too far ahead and that meant she could see them quite clearly but that her dark coat hid her in the very shadows that the orange male was afraid of. Turning her head this way and that she smiles as her eyes fall on a large female, she was glowey, glowey meant she could be caught, her skull always told her which ones could be caught. Sinking to her belly she crawls as close as possible before diving from the undergrowth, her claws unsheathing and her skull seeming to make the kill, her mouth, hidden under the macabre mask, clamped around the large beasts throat as it fell slowly to the ground. She was a great huntress, her mask always ensured she made the best kill she could.

Lecky lifts his old form up and pads over to Volvagia watching the rest of the herd scatter. He sits, weary of the newly dead beast, watching it's dying shadow. "I concede, your skull makes you a very good huntress. Lets eat." He smirks his scraggly old body setting itself down at the best place, he was hungry, he wasn't about to walk away from such a large kill. He glances back at the green lioness "You stay as far away from me as you can suspicious shadow, I don't want to be attacked while I'm eating!" He grumps, barely containing his excitement as he watches the beast take it's last breath.

Finally releasing the creature she had taken down she smiles beneath the mask tilting it back slightly to reveal her mouth which was caked in the blood of the animal. She didn't like looking through her own eyes, everything seemed so dull, almost black and white, nothing shimmered even the brightly coloured lioness seemed to be less vibrant without her skull over her eyes.

"The skull makes it easier, it knows what it wants." She smiles lowering the skull helmet back over her dull yellowish eyes. "Please, dig in, the skull lets me catch things best when it's for others." She grins proudly beneath the lid of bone and horns.

The old orange male didn't need anyone to tell him to dig in he tears at the creatures stomach and starts to eat, his smokey eyes glancing nervously around him as he ate, clearly in a hurry to be away from the shadow of the green female, but he wasn't about to give up his place at this kill, he was hungry. "You just eat the brainy bits bright shadow, I'll be gone soon enough and you can have the middle then." He snorts quickly returning his attention to the meat. A good meal, would keep the shadows away for a while, they were more weary when he wasn't hungry.

Volvagia nodded a very sage nod "Oh yes, it knows the world inside and out, it's been around for a very long time. It's eyes have sen everything so they know where to look, where to find." She smiles a calming smile though mostly her smiles were invisable beneath her skull the general idea that she was smiling was almost conveyed through the very garment she wore.

The old male gets to his paws and eyes Jura i a very suspicious manner, he takes a moment to clean off the worst of the blood from his maw, dripping would only attract the shadows and undo all the good work of filling his stomach. "Your skull is a very talented hunter, you should keep very tight hold of it." He states turning to Jura his eyes narrowing. "You and your shadow have permission to stay as far away from me as possible. I don't want that thing any where near me!" He watches her wearily for a second, wondering if he was going to have to run away from this scene, which was something he found some what difficult. His bones had been creaky for a long time and running these days was harder, especially since the world kept becoming more shadowy as time went on, every day he opened his eyes and the corners were shadier than they used to be. Grunting he nods a thanks to the black lioness and turns away from her heading towards the main pride, he could find some where perfectly sunny to rest in and the sun would help him to chase all the shadows away.

The dark lioness shakes her head "Enjoy your day sir." She whispers turning to Jura. "He's a little odd, I think his age has scrambled his brains." She giggles quietly, she felt sorry for the old male, she doubted he realised his eyes were fading, her skull showed her though, his eyes were dull instead of shiny like the rest of him. She supposed his suspicions were right, his world must seem very shadowy compared to how it used to. Shaking away the thought, she was pleased with the compliment about her skull, though she knew of course that it made the world a better place for everyone, it was a very kind skull after all. Laying down at the head of the animal she had killed she cracks its skull with her powerful jaws. "We can eat in peace now." She smiles at Jura. "I was helping the old one really, he looked so hungry and frightened. Silly old thing." she giggles, saying the words as if the old lion was a precious toy rather than an actual living breathing creature.

The dark lioness nods quietly, her pale eyes almost invisible beneath her skull helmet. "You're most welcome. We should maybe drag it back to the main pride huh? I'm sure there will be someone hungry hmm." She wraps her mouth around one leg of the antelope and starts to drag the creature, though she pauses and releases the leg to smile at Jura.

"I'll take it back if you wish to return to your trees." She smiles lifting the leg once again and dragging the beast towards the main pride. There were many mouths to feed and she was happy to feed them. Her skull was only so generous when there were so many mouths to feed.