MAKYNA

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The young lioness wandered through Polaris, marveling at the glowing lights and strange life. It had taken her a few hours to get through the whole place as she had to stop and look at everything, rendering her completely useless as to continue on with her search. Her search for what? She didn't know but her paws carried her onwards in her eternal thirst for knowledge. Soon, after she traveled from the main area of Polaris she found a pure river of flowing water. She had no word for "river" yet but she did know that it was water and that it was clear and good to drink.

Bidden by a strange new urge she approached the water and started to lap it up with her bright pink tongue. It tasted good and sweet. The young lioness finished her drink and stood up, running her tongue around her maw. "So good." She said to herself happily. Yes. Life was good and this water was good.

Now her attention turned to something new a rock that looked to have been placed there or thrown up from the river. Makyna had seen rocks before but this one called to her for some reason. It was like an voice from her mind told her to touch it. She didn't know why for it seemed to be a nothing-special rock just like all the others she had seen. Why was this so special?

She was going to ignore the voice whispering in her mind but it wouldn't leave her alone, not until she reached forward and placed her paw upon the smooth surface. It felt just like any other rock worn smooth by the water but for some reason when she touched it she felt a warmness in her gem and a strange new sensation enter her body.

Post Roll Edit: Her gem and eyes gave off a faint glow as she was able to hear and see fleeting shapes. She couldn't tell exactly what the shapes were but the voices were juvenile though she couldn't make out the words. What she could make out was the stone, the same one she had her paw on, and how the shapes knocked it into the water further upstream. Whether it was on purpose or not was up to debate.

Makyna removed her paw from the stone in astonishment. How had she just seen that? What had that been? Some sort of... of vision of the past or something? Amazing! A smile formed onto her face as she stared in awe at the stone. She was unaware of how it would look to others that wandered up... a lone cub staring at a stone like it was the best thing in the world.

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MAKYNA

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Makyna's happy reverie beside the rock was interrupted when she heard someone approach. She shook her head and took her gaze away from the rock to locate the sound. The noise came from a small, long-bodied creature with dark fur. He was almost not detectable in the gloom and wouldn't even be seen if not for the glowing vegetation and her decent night vision. He had a strange shuffling gait that to Ky looked unnatural. She didn't walk like that... Leon didn't walk like that... Why did he walk like that? Upon closer inspection she saw that one of his paws might look off but she was too far away to properly tell.

As she continued to watch she noticed that the creature seemed off in some way. He wasn't happy like she was or like Leon usually was. What was wrong? Was he that awful sensation known as sad? That was no good. It made her sad that he was sad. Her head tilted to the side as she pondered what to do. Should she just leave him? No. It would still make her sad to know that he was so close and she did nothing... but what was she to do? Her tiny face frowned up as she looked down at the ground as she thought. Quite by chance her gaze landed on the stone.

That was it! She would give him the stone! It had made her happy and since it had made it down the stream in one piece maybe it was a good luck stone! She wasn't quite sure what "good luck" was but she'd heard someone else use the word and knew that it had to be alright because it had "good" in the name. Besides, wasn't it nice when others gave you unexpected things? She reasoned with herself that it was nice.

Wasting no time the lioness picked the stone up in her mouth and moved over to stand beside the long-bodied creature. She smiled from around the stone as she stared down with her clear eyes, watching him attempt to drink. Oh, he seemed to be having a bad day... That was no good at all. Ky dropped the stone beside the gembound and nosed it closer to him. "You have stone. Stone is good stone. It is good luck stone for you." She lifted her head back up and smiled down at him, hoping that would make him feel a little better.

As she looked at him she noticed that his paw was indeed off. It was puffy and inflamed and just looked bad... Sympathy shown in the lioness' eyes and with her next words she was moved by this sympathy as well as a bit of instinct. "Can see paw? I can help." Or at least she thought she could. It would be worth a shot.

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MAKYNA

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Makyna was pleased to see that the other creature accepted her gift to him. So much so that her smile spread to a toothy grin. So his name was Fisher. She liked that! "Fisher, fisher! Welcome, welcome! Like your name." She gave a nod and and now lowered her head to peer at the paw more closely. Climbed a "Blue Thingy"? She'd seen a few blue things but none that you could climb. What in the world had he climbed that it would be so nasty as to throw him off? "Sounds scary. Sorry it happened, Fisher." She said with a sympathetic mewl. "But first to climb to top? Good job!" It might not have been the wisest thing to climb atop a nasty-blue-thing but if he'd made such an accomplishment that no one else had done then he deserved congratulations.

Now she moved slightly closer and sniffed his paw. To her it smelled a little warm... Like Leon's warm but not good. If warm helped cold then would cold help warm? It made sense to her. She sat up and looked around the area before she remembered that she had to give her name. "Makyna! I is Makyna!" She squeaked happily with a giggle. She liked to say her name and other people's names and just words in general! It was so fun!

"Paw warm. Needs cold." She mused to herself. Her blue eyes cast around the area again. It was so dark and gloomy but then she noticed the glow in front of her. It was soft moss, she'd seen moss before. Could she use it? No. It wasn't cold on its own. Now she looked at the water, water was certainly cold but you couldn't hold water with your paws.

Her brow furrowed as she tried to solve the problem. Water would help because it was cold but you couldn't hold it with your paws... But you could put your paws in it. She knew what to do! "Fisher! Put paw in water. Water cold. It feel good to paw!" That certainly made sense to her!

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MAKYNA

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It seemed as if he liked her name too! She giggled as he played with the sounds, reminding her of when she first hatched. Was this guy a new gembound too? She hadn't thought about it before but why shouldn't he be a new one? Or newish if he'd already gone on adventures of his own. She couldn't wait to have her own adventures! Well, so long as she didn't get hurt like this poor creature had.

After Fisher stuck his paw into the water everything seemed to be going good. He should feel the effects of the coolness soon or so the lioness thought. Then he was far colder than she had hoped because somehow he managed to plunge right into the stream. The bank just seemed to give out! "Fisher!" Makyna gave a gasp of alarm and ran to the edge of the bank. There was no thought in her head about the fact that if it gave out once that it could give out again. She only wanted to help her new friend from freezing or drowning in the water. She'd never heard of or seen drowning but instinctually she knew that it could happen.

The little lioness thought about going in after him but one paw into the water showed that it was far too cold, she'd just ending drowning too and then she'd be no help at all! Instead the cub reached out was far as she could with an extended paw and cried out, "Grab paw, Fisher! Grab paw!" Her claws extended on her other three feet to keep a tight hold as she reached even further towards the fisher. She had to rescue him, she just had to!

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MAKYNA

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Fisher really scared her! It looked like he was giving up and was just going to let the water swallow him up. The thought made her want to cry especially since this would have been her fault. If she hadn't told him to put his paw in the water then he wouldn't be in this situation now! Oh, he just had to make it... He just had to! To be lost forever in the water... that just wouldn't do!

Ky reached further for the fisher and saw that he had seen her offered paw. "Come on, Fisher... Come on..." She mumbled as she reached for him. Then, salvation, he grabbed onto her paw with his teach. Yowch! That hurt. At least he had a hold to her though, that was good. Now was the difficult part of pulling him back to shore. If she was bigger and full grown it would be no trouble but now with how small she was it was a bit hard.

Somehow though she was able to make steady progress with pulling and on a whim she reached forward with her tiny fangs and grabbed the fisher's scruff. She pulled and pulled and before long was able to get of them to shore. The little lioness made sure not to leave them to close to the edge though, she didn't want her or her friend to fall in again.

"You okay, Fisher?" She asked with concern as she crawled over to him. Her breath came in pants as she was exhausted from pulling the creature... but she was happy. She'd rescued him! Poor Fisher was just so soaking wet and no doubt cold so she began doing what came natural, licking his fur and lying close to him to help his temperature get back up. The water didn't feel nice but she didn't care, she'd suffer through the cold water if it meant helping Fisher out.

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