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Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 2:48 pm
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Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2015 7:19 pm
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Sha watched as the eccentric male returned her greeting and began to wade his way through the water towards her. She was mildly taken aback by his decision to come up to her as brusquely as he had, but there seemed to be no threatening body language behind it. Sha shifted slightly where she was in an attempt to make herself comfortably as she quickly took a drink of water.
The male offered her his name, which was Atawhai, and Sha lifted her head from the water and wiped her mouth before answering, "I am Sha-emhlabeni."
She looked him over for a moment, his wet fur beginning to gather the dust around it. He was intriguing, and he knew how to swim, apparently. Sha did not know how to swim. She never lived in a place with deep enough water to swim within, and the few occasions where she encountered large bodies of water she was warned never to get too close to fast-flowing portions lest she be swept away by currents.
So, clearly, her instinctive reaction was to ask, "Who taught you how to swim?"
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Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2015 7:29 pm
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Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2015 9:20 am
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Sha's maw pursed slightly at the idea of her name being a mouthful for anyone. She always prided her name. It matched her goals in life. She wanted to make an impression on this world, one that matched her namesake. She wanted to brand the world with her presence, so they never forgot that she existed.
"You can call me Sha if it's that difficult," She muttered, before giving the male a side look at his offer to teach her to swim.
"Of course I don't know. Large water bodies are dangerous, they can sweep you away. No one would ever see you again...," She trailed off, looking back to the watering hole before them.
This wasn't a roaring current, however. And he seemed to be able traverse the gap easily enough. And he was offering to teach her to swim. Maybe she should take him up on the offer, since he was offering so kindly.
"I don't know... I don't want to drown," Sha admitted, "And I might lose too much sunlight in my journey."
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Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2015 6:27 pm
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Sha contemplated the male's proposal for a moment. She did feel the occasional pang of loneliness now that she no longer had a pride, or her mother, or her friend. But she couldn't allow this male to come with her. Not to where she was going. He would not be able to follow, and if he did follow her would never be able to leave.
No. This was something she would need to do alone.
"I couldn't ask you to come with me," Sha replied, "Where I am going, you can never leave from. I travel to a pride I have heard of, who suffer from disease. They are in need of healers, and I have the skill and no one to heal."
She looked to the water, and then back to Atawhai for a moment before deciding on an answer to at least one part of his offer, "I would like to learn how to swim, though."
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