Mephistopheles

The young lion had followed Angela to Eridanus, wanting to meet her family that she talked about, and wanting to know more about feathers and whatever green might be.

He's a curious and attentive young man, but he is still young, and, in as much, he'd been coerced into the deep trench outlined with the ancient skeleton of a massive beast of some sort, the stark white bone flashing ominously between the mosses and ferns, and holding up a few here and there as well.

Colors flash between the monolithic plants and bones as he tears across the soft ground in pursuit of them, playfully growling as he springs after whatever small, colorful, and flighty creature moves in his vision, his beige and coffee pelt making him stick out almost as much as the skeleton around him.

It's been in the back of his mind, really, meeting other Gembound who could talk, but he's kept himself amused exploring the cave properly until now... but he misses his Thump.... maybe he'll find another here?

@Aran

Aran admittedly didn't do much for the group - sure he was their protector, but there wasn't much for the man to protect them against. Not so far, anyway. Aran knew eventually something might pop up, a stray lesser too strong for most of them to handle, or a dangerous gembound demanding combat from someone. Aran would make them sick, and then call it a day. So painfully sick that any movement would hurt.

Aran wasn't transverse when he would say that he had no idea someone brought the small lion cub to the group. He wasn't entirely filled in on everything that was going on, but it hardly mattered for someone like him. They didn't have much information he needed, anyway.

There was the skeleton, too. Aran really wanted to know what that thing had been at one point and time. His attention was taken to the skeleton instead of the child that was too young to do much hurt to anyone.

@Mephisto

Mephistopheles

Being that the two Gembound are ignoring each other, on purpose and on accident, Messi is of course on a crash course with the leggy and older guardian of his Thump and their family.

Quickly, a Windhopper sprints past, pastel pink and a fury of movement followed closely behind by a cocoa blur, the flash of jade across his face the only indicator that this ball of energy isn't some sort of magic plant tied to the panicked animal now disappearing over the lip of the divot left behind by the massive serpentine entity before it-he, Messi, collides with Aran's legs.

It's a good thing that Messi wasn't hunting him, or even interested in the larger Gembound, because with a bound that was originally meant to take him over the obstacle-person, he slams into the deer's forelegs from the side with a high pitched, "Y-yipe!"

@Aran

Before Aran could see the cub, he went flying into the deer's legs and nearly sent Aran plummeting to the ground. Just because he was small didn't mean he wasn't a strong little gremlin of a lion cub. Something had to of spooked the kid, though. The barasingha looked down at the kid that was sitting at his hooves.

"What do you think you're doing?" The barasingha questioned at the child.

@Mephisto

Mephistopheles

Messi scrambles backwards when he realizes he collided with someone, not something, and his hindquarters kind of sink down as his ears follow suit on his head. "Sorry, sorry! Was uh... chasing something, 'm bored. You okay from me?"

At least he seems aware of his weight, and the pain of making someone else into a Thump.

I'm sorry this is so short!

@Aran

Aran wasn't particularly upset at the kid, though he wondered the reason why his thin legs were suddenly rammed into like that. Chasing something.... Aran hadn't seen what the cub was chasing, but he didn't care to find out. At least the kid was nice enough.

"I'm fine." Aran responded. "What is your name, kid?"

@Mephisto

Mephistopheles

A few final sniffs, leaning forward to check on the older Gembounds leg as if he needed to re-assure himself, and then he leans back, weight fully on his haunches now.

Name. I need to say my big name, right?

"H'm glad you're ahkay. My name is Mephistopheles," he has to pull his lips back and bare his teeth to get this out in one go, his stone still obviously oversized in his jaw and bulky against his tongue. "It's big so I can grow into it."

@Aran

The little lion was glad he was okay, well that seemed nice. Children always did seem nicer than adult gembound, but Aran wasn't the nicest anyway so maybe that was just a comment on himself. Aran would do no harm to a child, though, and this one who called himself Mephistopheles would be no different.

"I am Aran." he replied.

The stone of the kid was indeed strange for the small thing's mouth, but soon he would grow into a powerful being and will be able to have that gemstone seem smaller when it was, in fact, the same size as it was when he was a child.

"You won't have to wait long to grow into it." Aran didn't know if that meant the name or the stone, but either one would have worked with what he said.

@Mephisto