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 Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 2:10 pm
Mbezi was always angry. So much so that he didn't quite notice until something shifted his mood away from being angry. The hyena never really got happy, unless he was thinking of the demise of Tukutu and his stupid brat offspring. Mbezi would never let it go, but he couldn't quite remember why he hated Tukutu so much. The anger had burned it out, and Mbezi wasn't concerned with trying to validate it with something else. Everything was just going to be Tukutu fault, in his mind. The hyena paced around the more empty part of the graveyard - and older area that had yet to be cleared out for more 'common' uses like skull-dens and what not. It was here he felt a bit more at peace with his plan, but it also made him look strange, being so far away from the bulk of the pack.
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Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 2:18 pm
 Payaso was just coming off guard duty, but had elected to go around the pack lands to her den rather then cutting across. She herself was brooding about her insane neighbor in the next skull over - a hyena who seemed to think his shadow was not attached to him. His ramblings sometimes kept her from sleeping.
She wasn't expecting to see anyone else around, let alone Mbezi. He was one of the pack's princes, she knew, and while no one led a cushy life in the Mava'Bunda there was no reason for him to be here.
"Hey," she called. "What are you doing in the boonies?"
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Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 2:50 pm
Mbezi's ear twitched as he heard a voice. Why? He should be alone, content with his plannings that would probably not pan out. There was never a good opportunity for them.
He narrowed his green eyes, realizing it was (or must be) one of the guard. Hunters never bothered to come around in this direction unless their hunting really led them off a normal course.
"Scouting," he said in a joking tone. "Stupid pack's expanding so much that this area'll be used sometime soon." Not like he cared, but it was a decent excuse.
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Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 4:45 pm
Payaso looked around the graveyard. This was not an area likely to be colonized soon, whatever the prince said - it would take more slaves to clear the area then they had, and some of the bones around here were too cracked to be of much use to anyone. But if he was scouting, sure, he was the prince, he could scout. If he wanted.
"Well, this is a particularly dismal place to be scouting. I thought the scouts took care of the places that we didn't already control," not that anyone else would want this desolate area, she added silently to herself.
"At least, the crazy scout that lives by me never seems to hang out where the pride already is unless he's chasing his shadow."
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Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 6:01 pm
Mbezi liked to force the bone collectors to go through some of these areas. There wasn't much here that was usable, yes, but some of these bones could make great barriers.
There he went again, thinking like he owned the place when he clearly didn't.
"Scouting for my own eyes," he clarified. "I don't always trust the scouts. I fear them to be lazy a lot." Not that Mbezi trusted much of anyone. All his siblings were out of the grasp of his paws.
"I'm sure you don't trust everyone in the pack," he rhetorically asked, his eyes turning straight on her.
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Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 10:27 am
"Most of the pack are hyenas nursing their own grudges that keep carefully to themselves. Or crazy, like my neighbor. Or just uninterested in socialization. This is not an environment that attracts happy hyenas."
Payaso may have sounded bitter, but she wasn't really, at least not with the pack. It suited her. She was not a great hunter, but here she was fed, given the opportunity to fight lions, and could carefully keep her hate of them strong. She wasn't particularly attached to any hyena in the pack, so trust was not an issue for her. The Prince, though, Mbezi, trust of the pack should matter to him.
"Whether they're trustworthy or not us up to you and you're family, not to me. I just have to trust you to put hyenas in the right place when they're needed. Trust is a burden that falls on you, and your family, even if you don't trust everyone."
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Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 3:07 pm
Mbezi laughed. "You'd be surprised. We've got a few normal ones here, I guess you're just not looking hard enough." He could think of a few of them, but mainly they were ones that he didn't see as assets. His eyes picked over the hyena in front of him, but he was sure that she wouldn't be the best asset for him. Pity.
"Not really," Mbezi said, deciding to educate her a bit. "My mother began to let nearly anyone in. We needed strength in numbers, not only in brains or brute strength. Thus, I'm certain that there's still a few bad apples out there," he said with a cackle.
"Just make sure you watch your back."
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Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 3:28 pm
"You really know how to instill confidence and pride in your people, your princeliness. It's good to know you have faith in your pack." Payaso shook her head. No matter who joined the pack, it was better then living rubbing shoulder to shoulder with lions all the time. Still, Mbezi's outlook seemed depressing, especially for one of the pack royalty -even if he was just male.
"In theory my job is to watch everyone else's back, and hope no one jumps on my own."
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