The Previous Round (of the Circle of Life)

 

Dramatis Personae:

 

Ananias - once king of Golden Pride, father of Arista [not present, just mentioned]

Arista – once king of Golden Pride, father of Sparthi, Kira and Zira.

Bonde (Swahili: valley; all meaning taken from Swahili, unless it mentioned as delivered from some other language) – lioness of High Pride

Busara (wisdom) –  gold lioness of Golden Sands

Cheza (play) – lioness of Golden Sands

Dhalimu (strong, brutal) – brother of Malkha, whitefurred lion (grey mane) with scars on his back.

Doria – young lioness of Golden Sands

Dotty - young lioness of Golden Sands

Epesi (light weight) - gold lioness of Golden Sands

Hatibu (preacher/adviser) – secretary bird, major-domo of Golden Sands

Gebali (rock) - rouge, redmaned, sandyfurred.

Ghera (mistrust) – mate of Sparthi, lightfurred.

Keme (shout) – rouge, friend of Sukari. Greyfurred, yellowmaned.

Kilele (peak) – king of High Pride, hoarymaned.

Kira – daughter of Arista and Malkha, born death.

Kauli – ball python, adviser and chamberlain in Golden Sands court.

Macheo (dawn) – lioness of Golden Sands

Malkha (<ancient Hebrew> queen) – queen of Golden Sands, mate of Arista, light-greyfur..

Masa (mother)–carer of Zira, best friend and admireress of Arista, substitude mother for Zira.

Mdoea (scout) – lioness of High Pride

Mhamiji (homeless) – rouge, sandymaned. 1.

Msiba (sorrow) – mother of Malkha and Dhalimu. [not present, just mentioned]

Msikizi (listener) – lioness of Golden Sands, goldenfurred.

Poromoko (avalanche) – late queen of High Pride

Rama – light grey furred lioness,

Saada (help) lioness of Golden Sands.

Shababu (storm) – leader of Mountain Gerge. Red fur and black mane. One-eyed.

Sparthi – son of Arista, brother of Zira. Golden fur. Prince of Golden Pride.

Sukari (sugar) – brownfurred, brownmaned rouge.

Tariki (road) - rouge, brownmaned/goldfurred.

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Dramatis Personae:

 

Ananias - once king of Golden Pride, father of Arista [not present, just mentioned]

Arista – once king of Golden Pride, father of Sparthi, Kira and Zira.

Bonde (Swahili: valley; all meaning taken from Swahili, unless it mentioned as delivered from some other language) – lioness of High Pride

Busara (wisdom) –  gold lioness of Golden Sands

Cheza (play) – lioness of Golden Sands

Dhalimu (strong, brutal) – brother of Malkha, whitefurred lion (grey mane) with scars on his back.

Doria – young lioness of Golden Sands

Dotty - young lioness of Golden Sands

Epesi (light weight) - gold lioness of Golden Sands

Hatibu (preacher/adviser) – secretary bird, major-domo of Golden Sands

Gebali (rock) - rouge, redmaned, sandyfurred.

Ghera (mistrust) – mate of Sparthi, lightfurred.

Keme (shout) – rouge, friend of Sukari. Greyfurred, yellowmaned.

Kilele (peak) – king of High Pride, hoarymaned.

Kira – daughter of Arista and Malkha, born death.

Kauli – ball python, adviser and chamberlain in Golden Sands court.

Macheo (dawn) – lioness of Golden Sands

Malkha (<ancient Hebrew> queen) – queen of Golden Sands, mate of Arista, light-greyfur..

Masa (mother)–carer of Zira, best friend and admireress of Arista, substitude mother for Zira.

Mdoea (scout) – lioness of High Pride

Mhamiji (homeless) – rouge, sandymaned. 1.

Msiba (sorrow) – mother of Malkha and Dhalimu. [not present, just mentioned]

Msikizi (listener) – lioness of Golden Sands, goldenfurred.

Poromoko (avalanche) – late queen of High Pride

Rama – light grey furred lioness,

Saada (help) lioness of Golden Sands.

Shababu (storm) – leader of Mountain Gerge. Red fur and black mane. One-eyed.

Sparthi – snow) – deceased prince of High Pride

Thela - young lioness of Golden Sands

Vii - young lioness of Golden Sands

Wivu (envy) – greyfurred lioness of GS, daughter of Masa

Zira – Daughter of Arista (Golden Pride’s king), sister of Sparthi and Kira.

 

…and few others, not mentioned due to spoiler threat

TLK/SP characters belong to Disney Pictures. Other characters are mine.

 

0. No light

[Starting song. Tune is quite easy and calm, yet mixing some airy melodies with more serious ones. Female voice, strings and mild piano in score. Choruses with orchestral touch.

All-black screen that in just blink of an eye turns to be a blazing light. After few seconds we see that is just a sunrise on desert – rays are reflecting on golden sand, initially blinding gazer. But we see more and more details – on first glance just dunes of desert, but then some landscape on horizon. Distant mountains (careful watcher could recognize desert range where is Rumble Gorge) in background, but camera is slowly going into direction of raising sun.

In spite of appearances of lifeless, desert is inhabitant. More and more creatures – fenecs, desert antelopes, addaxes, geckos and others. Many birds are flying east. All of them are going – in concordant march – to the Golden Massif. Predators don’t dare to attack any victim, there is no hostility among different species, yet still there is some fear there. Animals are looking each other with curiosity and uneasiness. That way camera reaches the Golden Massif.

Old secretary bird is circling above the massif and showing animals where they should go. The main gathering is in front of Golden Cave, just next to Acacia Alley – two lines of acacias, growing before the entrance. Inhabitants of desert stop in their places, watching dark doorstep of Golden Cave.]

[A young lion – just about year and half – is exiting the cavern. He has sandy mane, fur of similar colour and blue eyes. He is sunblind from the start, but then – with few more steps ahead – he opens his eyes again. Then we see he is crying, although he tries to hide it.

Just behind him is walking a giant lion, with golden fur and golden mane that is coming to darker shade at the ends of coat. His muzzle features are similar to adolescent lion, so we could make that assumption that are father and son. In mouth of lion a newborn cub is carried. Cub is very weak, moving slowly, but still trying to raise her paws and shield face from sun. her eyes are still blind – what is usual for newborn – but she seem to be somehow perceptive.

Just next to golden lion is walking another male – a bit older, of white fur and light-grey mane. On his back he is carrying a dead lioness. That lioness is grey-light furred and some resemblances allow us to assume she was somehow related to white lion. Most likely she died just while ago – on her muzzle an expression of pal">Wivu (envy) – greyfurred lioness of GS, daughter of Masa

Zira – Daughter of Arista (Golden Pride’s king), sister of Sparthi and Kira.

 

…and few others, not mentioned due to spoiler threat

TLK/SP characters belong to Disney Pictures. Other characters are mine.

 

0. No light

[Starting song. Tune is quite easy and calm, yet mixing some airy melodies with more serious ones. Female voice, strings and mild piano in score. Choruses with orchestral touch.

All-black screen that in just blink of an eye turns to be a blazing light. After few seconds we see that is just a sunrise on desert – rays are reflecting on golden sand, initially blinding gazer. But we see more and more details – on first glance just dunes of desert, but then some landscape on horizon. Distant mountains (careful watcher could recognize desert range where is Rumble Gorge) in background, but camera is slowly going into direction of raising sun.

In spite of appearances of lifeless, desert is inhabitant. More and more creatures – fenecs, desert antelopes, addaxes, geckos and others. Many birds are flying east. All of them are going – in concordant march – to the Golden Massif. Predators don’t dare to attack any victim, there is no hostility among different species, yet still there is some fear there. Animals are looking each other with curiosity and uneasiness. That way camera reaches the Golden Massif.

Old secretary bird is circling above the massif and showing animals where they should go. The main gathering is in front of Golden Cave, just next to Acacia Alley – two lines of acacias, growing before the entrance. Inhabitants of desert stop in their places, watching dark doorstep of Golden Cave.]

[A young lion – just about year and half – is exiting the cavern. He has sandy mane, fur of similar colour and blue eyes. He is sunblind from the start, but then – with few more steps ahead – he opens his eyes again. Then we see he is crying, although he tries to hide it.

Just behind him is walking a giant lion, with golden fur and golden mane that is coming to darker shade at the ends of coat. His muzzle features are similar to adolescent lion, so we could make that assumption that are father and son. In mouth of lion a newborn cub is carried. Cub is very weak, moving slowly, but still trying to raise her paws and shield face from sun. her eyes are still blind – what is usual for newborn – but she seem to be somehow perceptive.

in is mixed with smile.

Just behind them is marching goldenfurred lioness – she is in advanced pregnancy. She is holding in her mouth another cub, but it’s obvious that child is dead.

There go all lionesses of cave. Sad retinue stops at the end of alley.

Then zoom in on face of adolescent lion. He looks on dead lioness – due to clear similarity also to dead lioness, we could assume that was his mother. Son raises his sight up and narrows his eyes because of sunrays]

Looking into the skies

Reaching heavenly blue

That is too far from us

That is too high for you

[His father passes next to him, nuzzling his side. Sandymaned drops his sad reverie and follows. They all stops at the end of alley. Gold lion carefully puts living cub on sand, then turns

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