04-26-2020, 06:52 PM
Zora, more than anyone, understood the need to preserve memories. No one else remembered the ancient people she had come to love. Nothing else remained of them except the little tokens she kept to remind herself of them. Handkerchiefs, drawings, scraps of their clothes, the gifts they had given to her... all were precious. And though the contents of her little box might be too clunky to translate well to a book format, she knew what might fit in well.
Trotting forward, she immediately recognized two people. Aurum and Caustic were both familiar faces. Turning to the unknown person, she smiled her best smile. “Hello! I don’t think we’ve met. I’m Zora,” she greeted pleasantly, unable to stop the instinctive way her tail wagged at the prospect of adding someone new to the catalog of known people.
Introductions aside, Zora focused on the reason she had approached at all. “I don’t have anything I can give you, it’s all too important to me,” she began earnestly, looking up at the much larger lion. “But maybe you could press flowers into it. Ones that are... ones that come from here,” she continued, tripping over a forgotten word. Smoke trailed from the tip of her tail in embarrassment, but she refused to acknowledge her mistake. “That way, if you leave, you can remember the way it looked here.”
Trotting forward, she immediately recognized two people. Aurum and Caustic were both familiar faces. Turning to the unknown person, she smiled her best smile. “Hello! I don’t think we’ve met. I’m Zora,” she greeted pleasantly, unable to stop the instinctive way her tail wagged at the prospect of adding someone new to the catalog of known people.
Introductions aside, Zora focused on the reason she had approached at all. “I don’t have anything I can give you, it’s all too important to me,” she began earnestly, looking up at the much larger lion. “But maybe you could press flowers into it. Ones that are... ones that come from here,” she continued, tripping over a forgotten word. Smoke trailed from the tip of her tail in embarrassment, but she refused to acknowledge her mistake. “That way, if you leave, you can remember the way it looked here.”