[PRP] Monday Is Bongo Day (Sliabh x Eppie)

[hibi-tea]

Corralling the children for the day went smoother than the spotted lioness thought it would. She was only one of two Nannies in attendance for the day. Her usual partner, Njeve, had seemingly disappeared from sight, something about trying to find her den-mate and badger him abut soemthing. Not that Eppie didn't want to know or cared, it's just Njeve never really told her much of anything concerning herself. She guessed it was a form of protection for the hyena.

Sighing heavily, Eppie sat down in the dirt as the children played out in the opening, waiting for their respective relatives to come pick them up. In about an hour she'd know where she stood in regards to who she would have to take home. Some days their parents had enough energy to come pick them up despite not having enough energy to watch them and other days there was just no life left in them at the moment to move. It was saddening and Eppie often wondered when she would be incapacitated like that.

Shaking her head she watched the remaining children diligently, saying hello and good bye to her fellow pride members who were showing up to take their little ones home.  

[Tanakako]

Smiling down at his excitable young daughter, he calmly waited while she investigated a bug that had crawled across her path. Once entirely satisfied about the unusual creature, she raced to catch up with him and simultaneously pounce his tail-tip, making him chuckle. He had become quite used to the three cubs endless energy, so different from the youngsters he had known here in the pride before his trip into the rogue lands. His three cubs, daughters all, had been a pawful from the very start, and as soon as they had opened their eyes he spent much of him time when he hadn't been hunting for their poor mother, making sure they weren't getting themselves into trouble. Of course they usually were and Sliabh developed a whole new respect for all parents. Kids were hard work.


Caoilainn bounded along, fascinated by everything, this whole new land was strange and interesting to her after the vast open and very empty plains of the savannah. Yet there was a subdued atmosphere here.. which made her feel a little guilty for being quite so energetic, and yet, something would always distract her from feeling guilty and she would race off to explore it.



Smiling warmly as he watched his daughter leap about like a newborn gazelle, he slowly but surely made his way to the nanny's area of the pride. It was time to go out on patrol and while the other two were safely in their den, Caoilainn had demanded she join him as he walked about the pride earlier. Now it was late and he didn't have time to go back and place her with the other two, so he figured she may as well be introduced to the nannies who would be looking after the three of them from now on whenever he was out on patrol.
 

[hibi-tea]

Eppie recognized almost instantly one of the two that had approached the communal area used by the Nannies to watch over the children. One was a Guard named Sliabh. She had never met him face to face, but knew of him through glances and words about the pride. Despite the plague that ravaged their pride, the grape-vine within it was never weak and dying. There was always some new rumor regarding one of the pridal members, which is probably why everyone knew practically everything about those born into the pride.

What Eppie had heard was that Sliabh had returned to pridal lands a father, bringing with him new blood potentially free of disease to mingle with their own. This was a joyous thing, and Eppie was glad to Sliabh for his service to the pride, but wondered what his mate would think. That was if he had one.

"Greetings!" Eppie called, noting the child that followed Sliabh in tow. The little female had his colors, but not his markings. They must have been that of the mothers.  

[Tanakako]

Lifting his head ta the call, he spotted the one he knew as Jozo's .. well .. would-be-wife? He never had really got the story from the other lion, but he knew the basics from his friend's random muttering when they worked together and could guess that this lady was Eppie as he recalled she was a nanny. Smiling he altered his path slightly and padded up to her, offering her a gentle nod of his head. "Greetings. How are you this eve?" Glancing down at the young girl at his side he gently motioned Caoilainn forwards with a paw. Eppie was right about his task and his new status as a father. In truth fatherhood had been something of a surprise, since he hadn't known Haruma and her siblings when they were new born. And he had discovered that cubs, once they could see and walk, were as much work as his job back home in the pride. But now he was here and he had to go back to work at least until he left to go back out into the roguelands, since his task was far from finished.

"I'd like to introduce one of my daughters, Caoilainn." Meeting her gaze he nodded towards his suddenly shy daughter."And I was wondering if I could ask for your help for a few hours?"



Padding forwards under her father's urging, the youngster looked up with huge neon-bright green eyes. "HI!" Blushing both shy and yet excited, Caoilainn squirmed on the spot, looking between her papa and the pretty lady.
 

[hibi-tea]

"Of course! Of course," Eppie smiled widely, turning to the young juvenile and giving the sweet child a nudge on the top of her head as greeting, "It's good to meet you Caoilainn. I'm Eppie."

Eppie couldn't help but smile. She knew that even if it was one of Sliabh's duties to father and bring back new blood to the pride as someone who could leaves its borders, the pride was grateful to him and his service. Him and Jozo were the future of this pride with the children they could help create and bring back with them. It wasn't an ideal situation, but with the entirety of the pride taking the rest of the known feline world to heart, it was the only decision they had that didn't infect anyone.

"I have two sons and two daughters about your age, Caoilainn. Josepi, Eu, Veena and Liraz. Would you like to meet them later on?" Eppie asked, attempting to make the shy juvenile feel a little more comfortable. Children were so adorable. Eppie would make a million of them if she could.