The Names That Define Us

Ralla · 05-22-2011, 04:31 PM

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Sorry for the fail-post; my muse blanked out for a moment :X Backdated to May 13th (Nootau: Not Visible)

It was officially three days after the pups birth, and Ralla could not have been happier, if this was possible. Always peaceful in AniWaya, always something good to look forward to, and just when she had thought that it could not have been better, it got so. In a basket heaped with blankets warmed by the fire beneath their tree were the pups which had yet to be officially named; two which were like twins, and a third that was almost like the black sheep. But no matter their looks, Ralla was over-joyous that they were hers and Kemo's, and that Ayasha was to be their older sister. She had a family of her own; something that she had once been barred and forbidden from by her old tribe's customs. But no; in AniWaya, she was free to do it all, and she had, and her heart was so full it was as if the moon had chosen to be always full within it.

With Kemo, she was going to meet Chief Dawali by the Great Fire, where they would then go to Adagio Creek to bathe her pups' heads in the land's water and name them. She and Kemo already had names chosen for them, but she felt as if it would not be right to name them so frivolously. No; they would be named under the ceremony, and would be a part of the tribe just as she and Kemo were. Like other ceremonies, Ralla had painted herself in a crimson paint, and her golden feather remained still in her mane. It, like the crescent moon brand on her forehead, would become a constant as she molded herself into her new roles. Likewise, the pups each had a red dot of paint on their foreheads, which would be washed into the water and then into the land itself, an obscure symbol of unity.

Moon walks. "Moon talks." Moon thinks.

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