Another lion is exactly what Paixao needed [Active/Open]

[lionessofwar]

Character(s): Vitani, and whoever finds her
Content: Vitani is trying to familiarize herself with her new surroundings
Setting: Muspelheim gate
Time: Afternoon,
Warnings: None
Since it's her intro log, I'm gonna go ahead and mark it as multi-thread "party-style"

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[jakethetigerboy]

Mostly, his gaze was on the male lion who was looking pissed. Not good. The lioness--Vitani, had to be--spoke to him warily. He certainly recognized her voice.

He nodded to her, his own voice not with him during that very moment. The sack he found for her could be easily seen, as he was holding it in front of him. ...I somehow doubt she'll let me become lunch meat. From what he first noticed, they looked like they seemed to know each other.

That didn't mean he couldn't unglue his concerned focus on the unknown lion--that might have looked a little familiar. The mane on the guy lion looked as dark as a certain villainous lion Timon had mentioned was here. The body fur too. Yet, for the sake of staying alive, assuming anything wouldn't be wise.

"So...who's your friend," Jake asked, not even trying to conceal the nervousness in his voice. He's been in several terrifying situations, but the risk of being attacked by a male lion while exposed as his true self happens to be way worse than being around a kid as a male lion while transformed into a Siberian Tiger.

[scaronhisface]

Kovu's gaze flicked over to Vitani when she said a name, and then he backed up a few steps when the human responded. At least this was one human he wouldn't have to worry about. Any lion could smell how scared he was from a mile away.

"I'm Kovu," he answered, even though Vitani was the one who'd been asked the question. He was slowly letting himself relax, but he was still on edge. He'd heard about some really weird stuff that some of these humans could do over the journals, and that kept him wary.

[lionessofwar]

Vitani couldn't help her own amusement at Jake's fright, but she was still seeing him as some...monkey-type thing, with nothing special about him. She's yet to hear of anything else, and besides that, Jake had brought the bag to carry those leaves in for food. It was in plain view.

"He's my brother." Well, half brother, but Jake didn't really need to know little details like that as far as Vitani could see.

[jakethetigerboy]

Jake relaxed, at about a hair. The fact that they were talking was a little better, rather than having to try and outrun the both of them.

He felt a slight smile coming on, and it felt weird to him. That nervousness around Kovu in particular wasn't going away just yet. This was partially because of his respect toward the big cats. And seeing the amusement on Vitani's expression? Well, Vitani never exactly has seen a human before. Jake had a guess as to what she could be thinking; how odd and weak looking he was by appearance in contrast to herself.

And how is it that he couldn't be falling over without having a tail to balance himself? Ax, a very bizarre cross between a blue horse, human, and a scorpion, had pondered aloud about that before.

"That's good. You have family around here... Some familiarity is better than none." He ignored how slightly higher than usual his speech sounded. "Nice to meet you, Kovu."

He let the potato sack drop to the ground between him and both lions. "This should be of some use to you, Vitani. Make some things a little easier in Paixao."

[scaronhisface]

"Speak for yourself," Kovu muttered under his breath. This place would be far better for him if his mother had never shown up. And Scar...was definitely worse. It still felt really weird to him to think of Vitani herself as family, but then...family meant something much different in the Outlands than what everyone else seemed to know.

He looked at the bag Jake put on the ground. "What's that for?"

[lionessofwar]

"Really..." She only spoke to Zira and Scar over the journals, but she is dreading if or when they met up. She hardly remembered Scar himself...but Zira was a entirely different story that she wasn't particularly looking forward to facing.

"Apparently these shiny leaves have to be used to trade in for food. The bag is to put them in."

[jakethetigerboy]

"It can be used to carry other items, too," Jake suggested, gradually adjusting to having a conversation with two talking Disney lions. "It's what a lot of humans have been doing, using whatever glitters or shines as payment for food, medicine, and other things."

...A thought came to him out of nowhere. I think... Didn't Timon mention some of the lions' names besides Simba that one time through their communication over the journals? The awareness of that only flickered through his brown eyes. Nothing very noticeable.

[scaronhisface]

Kovu hadn't spent much time around humans, but Kiara had told him about the leaves. Not that it made any sense at all. Why would you take something that was just sitting there right next to you as payment for anything? It's not like there was anything keeping the people in the stores from going out and getting all they wanted on their own.

"You're going to look pretty stupid carrying that around with you," he felt the need to point out. Not like she wouldn't have done the same anyway.

[lionessofwar]

It sounded pretty ridiculous to Vitani as well, for much the same reason as Kovu was thinking. And it would look silly carrying the bag around...but they needed the leaves or something shiny to get food, right? And it would be easier to do with something to keep it in one place.

"Probably, but it'd be easier to keep the things in one place."

[jakethetigerboy]

Marco would have said the same thing Kovu said. Both ways, he felt he could agree. There were no cops or any kind of law enforcement around that prohibited stealing--but Jake knew better than to just take something.

He didn't just accept his share of Paixao currency from Kida without saying he would pay her back. That's just how he was. Whenever someone helped him, he would make sure to pay him or her back later.

"It doesn't matter much to me if you decide to make good use of it. I didn't want to just throw it away either."

He only decided to do this for Vitani for a purpose better than to go out and only answer his curiosity about her as well as the other lions, and Timon.

[scaronhisface]

"Your choice," Kovu said with a shrug. "I just always grab them as I go inside, if Kiara isn't the one getting stuff." The humans didn't exactly like having lions in their stores...

He'd never had to carry that much stuff around with him at one time that he would need something like that.

[lionessofwar]

"Oh? Then what does Kiara do?" She seems amused, to some degree. Mostly in the way of teasing Kovu a bit, but then she was curious as well. After all, Vitani is very much new to Paixao, and so is trying to atleast get all her options together, if nothing else.

[jakethetigerboy]

Jake listened with interest, knowing during circumstances in which he had to go out and buy something, he hadn't noticed any of the lions. Didn't see Timon or Pumbaa either. (Fairly soon, he'd have to ask Vitani and Kovu about Timon.)

He'd never been around anyplace long enough to. By now, in constantly being on the move during the day, he has seen all there was to see in this city. He morphed as little as possible to prevent unwanted attention, since he still didn't know for sure if there were Controllers around.

[scaronhisface]

"I never go in with her. I just wait." That shouldn't sound too out of the ordinary for Vitani, since Kovu had pretty much always been brought his food even in the Outlands, being the "Chosen One" and all. That didn't mean he wasn't good at getting food for himself, but unlike his brother he could afford to be more lazy about it, like most males would be.

"Whenever I do it I just ask them to bring me some meat, and give them the leaves. It's not too hard once they stop being scared of how easily I could kill them."

[lionessofwar]

No, it wasn't out of the ordinary at all. And so she doesn't think much on it, instead simply passing over the information to pay more attention to Kovu's last statement.

Though, it did remind her of something she originally overlooked. "While I was walking, it seems they already know enough to avoid lions, at the very least. Has something happened, or are they smarter than the monkeys generally seem to be?" Because that's what the humans made her think of: strange monkeys. Though the humans seemed to have more sense.

[jakethetigerboy]

"Another lion had recently killed and eaten one of them," he explained. "I'm probably one of the last to know about it. Do either of you have any idea who could have done this?"

Not that he wanted to get directly involved--but knowing the identity of the culprit would sure be for the greater good of keeping himself and Marco safe. Possibly others, too--like this kid he chatted to through the network earlier. Toboe was feeling very worried over what happened.

Also, knowing the good lions from the bad ones wouldn't be such a bad thing either.