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1y6m - 4.29.2024 - Sevemni was the newest member of the pride, set to live in the provinces and learn to become a functioning member of court life. It was here that she met Sharzi, a young patched lioness who kept her head down and walked on toward her future as a Kept.
Sevemni's teachers and mentors disliked her intelligence, having never had an apprentice of her like before. So, following the beautiful Sharzi's example, the golden apprentice kept her head down, and walked on toward her etiquette lessons.
1y7m - 4 30.2024 - Sevenmi fell into her lifestyle rather easily as the days passed on. Still butting heads with most of her teachers, trying hard to remember the paths between locations, and trying to keep her paws from chasing after the hunting parties, she found that there were other things now too, things that crept up onto her without realizing. Days became shorter and nights became much longer and drawn out. She'd rush through her chores and activities and classes and hunt down a certain patched apprentice to occupy her nights with. The sleeplessness only wore her down for the sunlit hours; when night came, she felt giddy and excited.
Sharzi had become her close friend and often the two shared experiences and stories between just them and the moonlight. The more Sevemni listened and learned from the mutated lioness, the smarter she found her to be. And the more she saw her friend, the prettier she discovered she was as well.
Their time together was not without end, however. Word became more and more abundant about Sharzi's role-to-be as a Kept, and more importantly, her moving away to the High Court. All Sevemni asked her was that she come visit, and not to be a stranger.
2y - 5.5.2024 - Sevemni was frustrated.
So much was changing about the life she knew: her rushed position in the High Court---which meant leaving behind the friends she'd had made anew---on top of her awe at seeing such regalia, balanced with her conflicting feelings towards a certain Kept that she couldn't seem to avoid. That's right.
Sharzi shadowed her since her first steps into the High Court. Even then, though certainly she must have known and perhaps even requested the relocation, the Kept lioness never said a word to her. Sevemni was bitter, though the term was a bit of an understatement, towards her old friend. When once she was confused on what she felt toward the dynamic of their friendship, she now felt anger, bright and burning. For one thing she was certain: Sharzi hadn't forgotten her promise. Sharzi had ignored it.
5.12.2024 - Upon seeing you, Consort Sevemni mreows loudly and furiously rubs her head against your chin.
2y7m - 5.12.2024 - Things had changed.
She was made to breed the king and consume some kind of tree bark that made her body ache in a way she couldn't explain properly. The days blew by in a haze, and many mixed emotions flitted through her heart. She was only really certain of one thing.
She missed Sharzi.
That night, the air was different. Something about the moon hanging in the sky seemed fragile, yet secure. The breeze was phantom to her skin.
She approached her, eyes seeking, hungry for something unbeknownst to Sevemni. Her head was bowed, the bleeding darkness beneath her eyes dipping down her neck, guiding the eyes along the landscape of her body, all the way to her tail, which was flicking nervously.
Sevemni smiled as she approached, another piece of the puzzle clicking in as Sharzi caught sight of her. "Hi!" She chirped, waving the tip of her tail in greeting. It was buried by the grasses. She didn't see it.
"Hey," Sharzi whispered, her eyes shy. Sevemni could swear she was blushing, but why?
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