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trying to find out my life story. After all, “Your answer ‘it was in my way’ is hardly an answer.”
“But it’s true, it was in my way so I went there.”
“And what circumstances put you in that place so the jungle was ‘in your way?’”
Sarafina was getting more and more curious as to why this lion was acting so defensively. “Well, how about this, if I tell you why I’m here, will you tell me why you’ve ended up here also?”
Apparently, the other lion was also curious about her life too. “Fine, I just want to here your story first.”
“No problem, After I finish, you will tell me why you’re here right?” Sarafina prodded.
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Chapter 3: Just for a Little While
Sarafina took over two hours to recite everything that she thought was important for this stranger to know so he would trust her. Her story went through her entire life. All the way from her first weeks of memory of playing with the other cubs in the pride, to the whole incident with Taka turning evil, to the incident just 2 or three weeks ago where Kucha had died. Reliving all those events had caused her to think about them again. By the end, she was almost in tears.
“Well,” she sniffed, “That’s about it, how about your life story now?”
The lion was surprised, this story was worse than he had expected. He no longer felt so bad about sharing his story. “Fine, just give me a minute here.”
They both used that minute to regain their composure. Sarafina from just telling her story, and the other lion to gather up his courage for his story. Finally, they were both ready. Then, at the last second, Sarafina asked “Could you tell me what your name is first please?”
The lion only thought it was fair as Sarafina had revealed hers during her story. “potea. All right, here we go.” He paused as if he still wasn’t sure whether he should uphold his promise or try to get away from telling. He shook his head, this lioness would not leave him in peace until his story was revealed. “It started about one year ago when I was almost a full grown lion.”
Slowly his story unfolded and Sarafina was stricken with horror. This lion clearly had a terrifying time. His entire pride seemed perfectly nice enough, it was just a year ago when the bad things started happening. It started with a hunt. There was an accident and one of the main lionesses was killed in a stampede. After that, things went from bad to worse.
A mysterious disease soon afflicted almost the entire pride. Unable to hunt, most starved to death, only a few of the older cubs and two or three lionesses lived. There was little hope for the survival of the pride at this time. Still, unable to break old bonds, they stuck together and wandered their territory for a whole month. It was at this time that another awful accident occurred.
The pride was playing in a water hole, just cooling off, at the time. Potea decided to run off and chase some small animals. It was this move that probably saved him. Not five minutes after he was gone, the first lion cub disappeared under the water. Of course, the others went looking for the cub and were subsequently also pulled under.
“At least, that’s what I think happened,” said potea, “I guess they all could have ran off and ditched me, but I can’t imagine them doing that.” He sighed, “That’s about it, after that, I just wandered and came across this jungle. It was perfect for me. It had enough food, and it was the perfect place to forget everything.”
“Well,” exclaimed Sarafina, “Then let’s forget everything and move on with our lives.” She glanced over at potea, “Are you coming or not? I could spend another year here.” Sarafina started walking away with a smile on her face and started counting silently. At five she turned around and said to the surprised lion “Good to know that you’ll join me.”
Startled for a moment, potea quickly recovered and caught up with heo:p>
Sarafina took over two hours to recite everything that she thought was important for this stranger to know so he would trust her. Her story went through her entire life. All the way from her first weeks of memory of playing with the other cubs in the pride, to the whole incident with Taka turning evil, to the incident just 2 or three weeks ago where Kucha had died. Reliving all those events had caused her to think about them again. By the end, she was almost in tears.
“Well,” she sniffed, “That’s about it, how about your life story now?”
The lion was surprised, this story was worse than he had expected. He no longer felt so bad about sharing his story. “Fine, just give me a minute here.”
They both used that minute to regain their composure. Sarafina from just telling her story, and the other lion to gather up his courage for his story. Finally, they were both ready. Then, at the last second, Sarafina asked “Could you tell me what your name is first please?”
The lion only thought it was fair as Sarafina had revealed hers during her story. “potea. All right, here we go.” He paused as if he still wasn’t sure whether he should uphold his promise or try to get away from telling. He shook his head, this lioness would not leave him in peace until his story was revealed. “It started about one year ago when I was almost a full grown lion.”
Slowly his story unfolded and Sarafina was stricken with horror. This lion clearly had a terrifying time. His entire pride seemed perfectly nice enough, it was just a year ago when the bad things started happening. It started with a hunt. There was an accident and one of the main lionesses was killed in a stampede. After that, things went from bad to worse.
A mysterious disease soon afflicted almost the entire pride. Unable to hunt, most starved to death, only a few of the older cubs and two or three lionesses lived. There was little hope for the survival of the pride at this time. Still, unable to break old bonds, they stuck together and wandered their territory for a whole month. It was at this time that another awful accident occurred.
The pride was playing in a water hole, just cooling off, at the time. Potea decided to run off and chase some small animals. It was this move that probably saved him. Not five minutes after he was gone, the first lion cub disappeared under the water. Of course, the others went looking for the cub and were subsequently also pulled under.
“At least, that’s what I think happened,” said potea, “I guess they all could have ran off and ditched me, but I can’t imagine them doing that.” He sighed, “That’s about it, after that, I just wandered and came across this jungle. It was perfect for me. It had enough food, and it was the perfect place to forget everything.”
“Well,” exclaimed Sarafina, “Then let’s forget everything and move on with our lives.” She glanced over at potea, “Are you coming or not? I could spend another year r again. “Just for a little while.”
Chapter 4: Final Act
That little while, had ended up to be almost a year long. Both would later look back and realize that this was the one time that they had never enjoyed more. For the most part, they could just sit back and enjoy life, but occasionally, something with more action occurred. Each and every one of these moments was thoroughly enjoyed.
About ten months into the fun and play, Sarafina’s cub Nala was born. It was a day of rejoicing. Unfortunately, less than two months later, tragedy struck. potea was struck with the disease that wiped out the rest of his pride. Knowing the definitive ending to this, he thought it over soon after the first symptoms appeared. Nala, still thought it was just a sickness that would soon pass, but potea knew better, he couldn’t bear letting Sarafina and Nala see him die. After thinking for a few minutes, he came up with an idea. He would execute it this very night.
He easily convinced Nala that they should sleep next to the nearest river so that he could get a drink if it became necessary. That was the first part of the plan, then, by himself, he looked around the river to find an area that would suit his needs. With the first two steps out of the way, he just needed to wait until they went to sleep.
It didn’t take long, within 15 minutes both the others were asleep. He gave it another half hour to make sure they were sleeping deeply. Then, trying to stay quiet, but still making the occasional rustle, he walked over to the river and took a drink. He turned back to make sure Sarafina was asleep, and slowly walked into the river.
He had picked the location with care. It had to have fast moving water, but also at least one little slow moving section near the bank. It was also preferred if it didn’t have too many rocks that he could slam into on his way down the river. Potea would need to stay in the river for quite a while. That would assure that Sarafina would think that he had died in the river.
Now was the moment that he would decide whether he would be able to desert them, even though he knew there was no hope of his survival. He decided to take the last step into the river and let himself be swept away by the force of the water.
Potea gasped, this water was colder than he had anticipated. Despite the temperature, he looked ahead and continued down the river, farther and farther away, never stopping. He could only count on two or three hours before Sarafina woke up someway or another.
It happened to be much longer than Potea had expected when Sarafina woke up. However, she did notice his disappearance instantly. After a moment of shock and panic, Sarafina calmed down and tracked his movement to the river edge. Sarafina came to the conclusion that Potea had hoped she would come to, he must have been sweeped away.
Sarafina, also according to plan, grabbed Nala and started moving down the riverside. She walked and ran for a whole hour and
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