08-23-2019, 04:39 PM
[glow=#000,1,400]MY MAMA SAID THAT I'M NOT LIVING RIGHT. YOU RAISED A LION, MAMA, I AIN'T LYING, MAMA — ｡+ﾟ.[/glow]
Wormwood felt a great deal of pain when he thought back about his Mother's recent death, and the way that his parents had never truly loved him when he had been but a cub. He sometimes questioned to himself whether it was better for his parents to have never loved him and then passed away without him feeling too much sorrow, or if it was better for his parents to have actually loved and cared about him and then passed away and caused him a great deal of pain. It seemed as thought Worm was about to meet his polar opposite in terms of that question in Hibiscus. The colt had the loving Mother part, but her end had come swiftly, and he had been forced to commit the atrocity of eating her, and although Worm wasn't aware of any of this yet, he probably would've said that was much worse than the fate that his Mother and family had suffered. In fact, he probably would've felt a great deal of pity and sympathy for the child, and want to make him feel better.
The lion had been walking along through the edges of the swampland when he heard the cry that came out from the colt, and the subsequent snapping and bending of leaves, mud, and earth when the child collapsed. Frowning in worry, the male quickly moved towards the source of the cry and felt his eyes widen when he saw the starving creature. Urgently, he gently nudged his head against Hibiscus's side, murmuring in a soft and comforting voice as he tried to get the male to wake up, [glow=#165042,1,400]"Hey, hey... little one, please wake up for me. You are on Tanglewood territory. We can feed you, do not worry child..."[/glow] Seeing the state that the colt was in, he quickly rushed off back into the marshlands and came back several minutes later with prey for the strange child creature. Dropping it down near Hibiscus's mouth, he turned and called out for the medics, unsure if the child was injured in a way that they could assist with, or if he was just exhausted and starving... hopefully the food would help with that.
The lion had been walking along through the edges of the swampland when he heard the cry that came out from the colt, and the subsequent snapping and bending of leaves, mud, and earth when the child collapsed. Frowning in worry, the male quickly moved towards the source of the cry and felt his eyes widen when he saw the starving creature. Urgently, he gently nudged his head against Hibiscus's side, murmuring in a soft and comforting voice as he tried to get the male to wake up, [glow=#165042,1,400]"Hey, hey... little one, please wake up for me. You are on Tanglewood territory. We can feed you, do not worry child..."[/glow] Seeing the state that the colt was in, he quickly rushed off back into the marshlands and came back several minutes later with prey for the strange child creature. Dropping it down near Hibiscus's mouth, he turned and called out for the medics, unsure if the child was injured in a way that they could assist with, or if he was just exhausted and starving... hopefully the food would help with that.
— Reggan