10-12-2017, 08:29 PM
Through despair and hope, Through faith and love. Till we find our place, on the path unwinding.
The earth trembles, rattling him awake. The lion's lids flash open, he looks out for a stampede - that was the only time he had ever felt the earth move the way it did now - but what he sees is a lone mare instead of a herd.
A smug lone mare.
With a single graceful motion, he leaves the ground and lands with his weight evenly distributed between four wide paws. At first, his adrenaline is raging and his claws are at the ready. But as she speaks, he finds his boiling blood cooling. She sits back on one hip as if she saw lions in the Meadow every day - as if he was boring her.
She likes games, and you're her toy.
But he finds the thought is not altogether unwelcome.
Heavily, he sits on his haunches with his tail neatly wrapping around his back paws. His amber eyes reflect the rising sun, but they don't lave her face despite the missiles she had aimed at him.
She likes a show.
He breaks his stare with a massive yawn, long ivory fangs glinting in the morning sunlight, eyes squeezed shut.
"Well, I'm awake now, just like you wanted. What was it you had planned after that?"
If you can't fight them join them, right? And she looked like one he would much rather join than fight.
ZENITH
@[Karsi]