Anti-Sad Lioness III

((voyaging glider is in the buried hoard waiting))

((The last-born cub of the Anti-Sad Lioness II, sired by sunnyasumi just shortly before Anang passed on and was replaced by the new king. She was 1 year, 5 months when the new King was crowned))

When her Mother passed on, She took up the Title/Role. :) She is The Third, and came with the following 'inheritances' to start her off:

(From Mum)
-BG: [D] Forest Thicket (Self Bought)
-Nightjar Feather Decor (Self-Made)
-Grivet Monkey (Event Item I had in the hoard)
(From Grandmama)
-"Giant African Mantis" (1 GB)
- "Taita Fiscal" Decor (40 Jeweled Beetles- Event Item)

Things I have Added as time went along:

+Lesser Egyptian Jerboa
+Lion Spirit
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It was so close... SO close... She just had a bad feeling, as it were- She couldn't have told you WHY... but she had bad dreams, and worries, and even the cubs she cared for noticed she would get distracted. just /watching/ The King, Khavi... she seemed to be trying to suss out something, figure him out somehow, something... about him.

It was, of course, what she feared so much she could not speak of it- his AGE. Simply put, Khavi had reached that wonderful age in which a Lion is yet Handsome and Dashing... but he is not /fast/ and he is only as Strong as he has breath to flow into it. Only as Powerful as his roar when he is NOT tired... only as... much the King... as his Lionesses allowed. Oh, they adored him, and none would depose the great King. He was a goofy, friendly, good-natured, strong-hearted thing. But still... his 'Princesses' had little princesses now... and they, soon, would bear their own as well.

He had grown old, like the King before her, The one her Mother had so loved. Anang had died, leaving the pride with no successor. Who would take his place, then, if he passed on... Khavi had no rough-and-tumble young sons to take over for him in his old age! Only his good-natured sub-male, already middle aged. He called him, affectionately, "Son-of-my-Heart"... but was he the next King? She did not think so. The DREAMS... did not imply it.

Then who? She was uncertain, and uncomfortable to think she might have passed on her last litter of cubs... and perhaps... perhaps she had /missed/ having a cub of HIS... to take her place, when SHE passed on, as her Mother had, for her, and her Grandmother before her... Would her line be broken? Lie in ruins? Would an old cub, long gone away, return from those man-traveled lands to take up the mantle? Or could another EVER become what she was, to the pride itself? To the basis of it's living and cubs to come?

It made her feel chilled, and afraid.

She did not know what to do with her hopeful heart, when she had one last HEAT... when she coupled with the King she so faithfully served that one last time, or when the days rolled by and she rolled out ONE tiny little cub... a Beautiful little girl-cub, to take her place! OH how her heart leapt and beat and pounded like music in her frail chest... she would not be without a successor!

The little Cub was as she had been- so much MORE than her Mother before her... A little more gifted in the way it moved, or played... a little more fetching in the way the markings scattered along the fur of her tiny coat... everything seemed so lovely about the tiny newly delivered bundle... even the way Khavi licked and groomed it with her, praising her on such a hearty cub at... well. an advanced age for both of them! He seemed especially pleased, though, at the gift to the pride of a little one who could train with mother and learn her skills of Nurturing and Caring for others...

It was such a relief... it was a WASH of relief... it made everything to come, bearable... even the loss of the King, with all that followed.


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((Everything below this was copy/pasted from her Mother!))
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((The last-born cub, from the Anti-Sad Lioness, by Djiwat))
(( See bottom for an explanation and a list of what she inherited from her Mother- I will continue the tradition of adding something to her when I am particularly depressed, to fight the sad/dark/icky.))

New Additions:

-BG: [D] Forest Thicket (Self Bought)
-Nightjar Feather Decor (Self-Made)
-Grivet Monkey (Event Item I had in the hoard)

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Her Mother's Story- AKA The Tale of the Anti-Sad Lioness. :)

(( Awwwww.... look at the ickly bebe kitty!! ...she was given to me by "emiko" #52305 because I was having a very sad/depressed day (week really) ...she is a cute little kitty with such good markings, She is now the Anti-Sad Lioness. FEAR her Anti-Depressive Powers.... They are Mighty!))

List of changes to her (if any):

List of additions to her (if any):

List of Decor/Background/etc for her (if any):

-Self Saved/Made Flamingo Feather Decor
-Self Saved/Made Hornbill Feather Decor
-Self Saved/Made Kingfisher Feather Decor
"Herb Grove" Background (1 GB+ traded a Lioness)
-"Giant African Mantis" (1 GB)
- "Taita Fiscal" Decor (40 Jeweled Beetles- Event Item)

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