Regina of the Décès Ombre Pride
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Post by Aminta Eliades on Aug 27, 2016 22:05:49 GMT
She walked through the door and her nose rankled. Male that wasn’t normal. Strong male even worse. She knew that she shouldn’t have taken the job in Seattle but the pay was ludicrous and the challenge was amazing. It’d taken a good deal of work to make herself as home as she’d been for the short while she was there but the Vindex that’d come down to help Tibs was very helpful. In fact a little too helpful. You’d think with Denver being so far away that there wouldn’t have been much she’d be able to offer except a few good places to eat. Nope she was a regular tour guide.
It’d taken Aminta getting really fed yup to drive home the point that she liked women as much as the next openminded liberal woman but that Anita was not her cup of tea. She was just how she was going about it was rubbing her the entire wrongway. Funny thing is the moment they’d had the heart to heart they were on such a great wavelength that Aminta was worried about the other shoe dropping. It made her even more nervous with Anita not hitting on her every few seconds. Almost enough that she’d almost lost focus on the job.
She’d reined herself in knuckled down and gotten through it. She was looking forward to being home away from it all and then this. She went to her room first. No scent which meant the galoot had not entered her space. His scent was around her door which meant he’d lingered thinking about it or at least sniffing around. Then to Peppers no scent of him inside which was a good thing. But Pepper wasn’t home and that started her worrying some until the others told her of Pepper disappearing the night before after the shooting at the club. So caught up in what that might mean it’d taken a couple of retellings before she’d got to the good part the male lion Jaden was theirs. He was part of the Pride showed up just after Aminta had gone to Seattle and was one of theirs. Not one of Chidera’s here to take the Pride nor a rogue. He was gone to bring Pepper back if he could.
She visibly sighed and packed her things away for something to do. Then she felt them Pepper and the male lion coming home. She hopped up and went to the porch to inspect this new to her lion and see what had made Pepper disappear. She knew Pepper could handle herself until she couldn’t, and the new Lion was nothing like Tibs he was smaller in size but there was a toughness about him that made Aminta’s teeth stand on edge. He was going to be trouble for sure. Despite her thoughts she smiled bright as she could which was easy once she saw Pepper.
She was being childish and knew it but she went right pass the new lion straight to Pepper taking her hand leading her instead of to the house to the Venatorious. She knew a lot of lions avoided the place unless they were itching to shift and as such they would be as alone as if they were in church. “I have got so much to tell you.” She began as a way to give them cover. If everyone thought she was going to gossip about her trip they were also more inclined to leave them alone.
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Regina of the Décès Ombre Pride
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Post by Pepper LeForge on Aug 28, 2016 4:04:56 GMT
She had given j the silent treatment then getting out she saw Nita and smiled. Her bad mood no gone but lessened she let her hand be taken and went to the Holy place" I bet we do"
The walk there was quiet and soothing. She kept looking over at the tanned beauty she'd missed her presence.
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Regina of the Décès Ombre Pride
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Post by Aminta Eliades on Aug 28, 2016 6:54:20 GMT
Aminta knew her Pep was not happy and she would ask why first as a way to give her a chance to get it off her chest. Neither was the best at hiding their inner thoughts from the other. Not because they played at being intimate but because of their time together as the heads of the Pride. Having to rely on each other and trust each other first and foremost. She inhaled as they walked catching scent of Pepper having had a good time. She smiled hoping to get girl talk as she had really been with anyone save Pepper in a very long time.
Once she was sure they were alone she found the branch where they normally hung out. Settling in she asked, “So spill adelfí, who were they and why were the others worried, and also not as important but who is the new odévoume.” She asked as it was important and left it open ended enough that Pepper could work her way through easy to hard or a little of one a little of another until everything was out. Once she did Minta would tell her about the vindex that had gone tail up for Tibs.
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Regina of the Décès Ombre Pride
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Post by Pepper LeForge on Aug 28, 2016 17:24:28 GMT
She laughed well that was one way to handle it but she appreciated it. It was what she needed " so the wolves had their leader snatched a bit back it spread like fire and he's yet to be found think it's got them paranoid cause I went I for one of the two shifts I do in a week now that I technically don't need to work but the club was a murder scene..some tourist picky pocket type nut it was after a fight with some red headed gal,"
She climbed the tree and settle again stretching" so turn out of all folk to be there that night our very own spook squad detective Vincent and Gurl he finner den frog hairs but always been a mystery so I remember when the thing with Estelle happened he gave me his card so I called to try and get what all had happened. We met up and was drinking both feeling some sorta way and. "
She shrugged and laughed " boy can keep up tell you what but it's not love or nuthin he might not ever ever come round here or invite me but who knows."
She snuggled closer to the other and grinned. " so den dem scaredy cats sent that big turnip head out after me cause he's like a one man wrecking crew and he was going to"bring me back" He an ok guy but I found out bout him by him have beaten up one dey younger boys who picked a fight. Before you ask why I'd let him stay after was he had a point the boy was flexino in public he could have killed him but didn't and he came by after to fess up and make it right. Been here since and he's good for balance but we know who run dis whole shebang still"
Nodding at her comment." So tell me bout your trip since you all filled in"
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Regina of the Décès Ombre Pride
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Post by Aminta Eliades on Sept 4, 2016 19:21:29 GMT
She quirked an eyebrow at the finer than frogs hair line. Pep used that when she really thought so not just when it was a handsome person. It was a small tell and Aminta wouldn’t push. As far as she knew aside form this get-uout Pep was all but a nun. A sexy little nun but a nun all the same. Her reserve made Amint feel a little slutty at times. " I thought the wolves had the city on lock as they snoop but nit get involved in everything, oh well gues you can never tell. Guess they are going to get a new leader soon as we all know what happen when somebody ges missing down here."
Clearing her throat she decieded to let loose with everything. " The job was fun in its way but remember the vindex that was here to help Tibs. You now the one that gave him the workout well she was my contact for the job and considering it wasn’t her city I thought it would be a lot different than it was. But she knew allthe best spots to eat and run and well she was all but a native. She’d grown up there which mad eit interesting to sya the least. She was all over me layingit on thick. "
She laughed nervously as she went on, " At first I was flattered. Really I was, then I felt smothered and well I let her have the its not you its me talk and things settled down she stopped trying to get into my pants. Not that I don’t do sloppy seconds just not with her and not in that way with her. If Iam beinghonest I know that the real reason is she was with Tibs and that felt wrong. Somehow, don’t ask me why but it just did. That and she kept calling me Nola when we were around other lions. Not that there were that many."
Amnita snuggled in closer holding Pep as she let her mind really run ahead of her mouth. “ Their was something curious though. There was a lot of back and forth with a shipping company based in Reno but riginating from Oahu.I paid it as little attention as I could but it stood out Every few weeks like clockwork going back a year then nothing.” She didn’t go on as he rmind worked atit but oculdn’t see the whole picture. “So this guy is he trying to getthe job as Rex or is he really as nice as he seems caring about the others withno real gain in it for him? Whats your honest opinion?”
Dealing with him would be easier than chasing down where her mind went with her trip. Especially as she liked what they had and didn’t want any chunderhead coming in upsetting their apple cart.
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Post by Pepper LeForge on Sept 5, 2016 23:13:06 GMT
She listened " Well laying low you can still piss folk off and round here yeah you get missing. I still think till they got a body or evidence he might be alive just licking wounds like most dog do"
She smiled then frowned then rumbled " gawd I can't stand them types almost worse then men..I understand felt the same way couldn't look her in the eye after their roll in the grass. Was grossed out to the fullest but what ever Cher. Glad she took de hint after a bit"
Nose wrinkled some people acted to much like their animals selves she was ok with hers but still considered herself people not animal first." Oh he strong but you stronger I'm stronger we got others in the pride that hold more com.and so he's not a rex and if he tried for it I'd saint him fast no blinking "
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Militis of the Décès Ombre Pride
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Post by Jaedon on Sept 6, 2016 0:20:11 GMT
He chomped through the area and made enough noise to rouse the dead on purpose he wanted them to know he as coming. He wasn't shielded but the magic of the place was unbelievable. So much so he knew that even full bore and blowing his own horn they wouldn't sense his presence unless they were looking for him. The space was filled with all the lions who'd lived and died here. Including one or two who couldn't tell if they were male energies or female. He didn't mind it was nice and he'd taken to sneaking out here periodically not just on the full moon.
Even fitting into the Pride as much as he had surprising really as he was not a Pride sort of lion he felt ill at eases from time to time. The other lions were okay with him when there was a head to crack or there might be but they looked at hi as an enforcer not necessarily as a protector. He avenged he didn't save. He was fine with that really he was it was a taste of the old with a hint of the new him. Or at least the him he was trying to be. He only came here now as the others were up in arms about a disappearance. It was why they'd been nervous about Pepper going missing and sealing herself off.
Sadly there was no peace to be had until it was settled so he came out here hoping the other new lioness had calmed her down enough to talk really. Something had to be done. Once he scented them he called out "HEY!! Pep new girl!! we have to talk."
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Regina of the Décès Ombre Pride
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Post by Aminta Eliades on Sept 6, 2016 0:26:28 GMT
Minta was getting ready to reply when she heard him then felt him. Speak of the devil she thought and instead merely sighed aloud. “Are you serious?” She asked quietly. She knew that he wasn’t the brightest tool in the box instantly it was clear or else he would have just looked up instead of shattering the moment with his maleness. He was loud and all too confidently male. She sighed snuggled Pep harder then let her go. She was a little perturbed with his use of new girl in remark to her but she guessed he couldn’t be blamed she hadn’t introduced herself. She was sure no else had either. It was a given Pep was the heart of the Pride Aminta was the shadow. She liked it fine until he said new girl.
“I guess we have to tend to him… Wanna pounce him?” Aminta teased preparing to climb down and meet whatever this was about head on or as head on as she ever would. Pepper was confident she was stronger but she tasted his aura and wasn’t sure. In a stand up fight there was no doubt that unless they got the drop on him neither she nor pepper would be able to take him.
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Post by Pepper LeForge on Sept 6, 2016 6:14:54 GMT
If she had been shifted her ears would have folded back like an annoyed house cat. He was the ruiner of moments and it was agrivating. Slipped from the tree she laughed "last thing on my mind trust me sweets"
Face to face with him" I'm on the land sheilds down what more do you want from me? Am I on house arrest now?"
She sighed and walked back toward home figured he'd walk and talk.
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Militis of the Décès Ombre Pride
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Post by Jaedon on Sept 8, 2016 3:58:40 GMT
Face to face with him" If you want to be I’ll play whatever game you need, later. But right now the others," He thumbed at the house over his shoulder. “Wanted me to tell you about Ghislaine.” He slaughtered the pronunciation still not accustomed to these backwater French Cajun Creole names and ways of saying them that made no sense more times than not. Usually he was able to repeat it close enough to get the gist across. Sometimes not so much. This was one of those. “She’s missing and it was either you or her. I can’t track you both. Well I could but you were pouting in the car so I thought to give you time to calm down. So you are the leader they need not the one that might make a bad call.”
He said what he’d come to say and explained himself as best he knew how. The truth was he knew she was in a bad way and didn’t really want to put Pepper in that predicament. He spent the car ride trying to figure out how to say it. But his gut was never wrong. He’d tracked her scent to a hotel in the quarter and the place had the scent of blood and magic all over it. She wasn’t strong enough to shield form him but there was nothing on the other end. So he knew she as in a bad way. Without cutting loose there was nothing he could do really. Even if he did as he explained to Pepper earlier he was damn good at what he did. Saving was not one of them. Avenging was.
He waited for the storm to come. He was the target of opportunity so he mentally braced all the while seeming nonplussed.
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Post by Aminta Eliades on Sept 8, 2016 19:34:30 GMT
Minta scrunched up her face before smiling which was a baring of teeth that he annoyed her some, okay a lot. But she had to admit that the annoyance was hers because of Tibs and the other male lions she’d last really dealt with outside the pride." You are a very cocksure lion for a new booty you know that right," she didn’t give him time to reply. “Tell us everything. You’re holding back why?” She feared the worse even as she knew she would have made the same choice. Pepper was more important than any of them singlely. Pepper was the holder in trust to everything the Pride had and there would be no way to change that quickly even as good as she was. For all intents Pepper was the Pride in any way provable.
This galoot however would not know that much but he somehow sensed it. Which as good for him and bad for Ghis. She as she spoke reached out to the Pride to really take a look at where they were mentally. Worried ys but she caught a hint of something else. She’d let Pepper investigate first and that started with this one coming clean about everything.
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Post by Pepper LeForge on Sept 8, 2016 20:53:37 GMT
She heard the news and took a breath stopped at the porch and brushed power out through the line touching each Nita jeadon and all each in place until their a very faint link like loose tooth. Trying to push some of that home and help to her." Dammit jeadon where is she I know you know we need to get her now and I swear who ever hurt her gonna be so damn sorry"
She went in to the house looking at the faces" you are her pride just as I am if there is something going on then why wait till it was this bad to do anything? As you can see I am safe but she's not if you know something speak up if not prepared the healing room for the worse and be prepared to help heal when we come back"
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Militis of the Décès Ombre Pride
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Post by Jaedon on Sept 10, 2016 10:50:56 GMT
He scratched his chin and watched the two of them go from relatively passive to armed and nearly ready for war. He’d expected a chastisement and got a small reproach as far as such things went. As leaders it was their right to all but take his head off if they thought he’d let something slip. It was a small if as he felt that he had with good reason but slip all the same. Splitting time between the Pride and his son he made sure to check in often enough that his scent was in the house even when his body wasn’t. He thought of firing back at the smaller brunette but thought better of it. They were worried about an errant lion so he bit his tongue. Old dogs might couldn’t learn but it was obvious that lions could. " In the bayou," He responded not sure how to describe it but he knew just about how far out she was and it was pretty far. Right at the edge of his grasp of things. He couldn’t explain it but once he adapted he was damn good at tracking and it gave him an almost instinctual grasp of the land he was in. “And yes I am holding back. I always do. What I am holding back is finding a lion too hurt to heal or worse. Can’t put my finger on it exactly, at least not without going hunting myself but she was involved in some badness. Her trail went cool and that only happens for me when the other person is hanging on by a thread.” He said this last very carefully as he was a bad man and he knew what damage it would take to stop him from radiating the heat that was second nature and first for him now.
It was an apology by way of explanation but it was a small one. He didn’t know what was expected of him and wouldn’t push. If he did he knew it would be perceived that he was taking airs or worse challenging in some way. He wasn’t, he wouldn’t but having that trust invested in him so that they knew him enough to know was a long way off.
Trailing along behind the lionesses he simply shadowed them as Pepper went on a get right act right tear with the others. He couldn’t make himself invisible or opt out so the least he could do was to be present. After all the small part of him that was so much of his old life demanded he getto work. Breaking bones and making it so costly to even think about dicking with the pride as to even put a scare in the devil himself. That wasn’t who he was now or at least that’s not who he was trying to be. “She’s outted. Which means whoever harmed her did so purposefully or at least had numbers on their side."
He was just the biggest ray of sunshine he thought. But they needed to be warned in case things were as hairy as he thought they were. He was getting ready to make a suggestion when one of the others spoke up. He crossed his arms over his chest and listened digesting their words. It was Ghislaine’s BFF Amalia. He didn’t like her as a person but she was part of the Pride so he tolerated her. Of course as she spoke he was rethinking that. She told a story about how they were drinking and hanging out when they were approached by a few men. She felt weird and left. Ghislaine stayed and partied. He snuffed at that. Her energy was all over the place she knew more but wanted to seem the victim and the smart one all at once. She had the scent of her own blood on her but there wasn’t a visible scarring which meant it was somewhere hidden. She also smelled of another Ghislaine so them two together made since the blood dissipating on the air didn’t. He twisted his lips trying to hide his feeling but failed. She was pitching her voice and working up tears as she really got going relating how her bad feeling made her come straight to the Pride house to rest and Ghislaine was supposed to meet her here. The feeling of a lie was all over her and he couldn’t help himself so he did what he could he bit his cheek to keep his mouth shut. There’s always one who thinks they are slicker than ice on an oil spill. He was curiosu to see how Pepper was going to handle her."
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Post by Aminta Eliades on Sept 10, 2016 20:10:23 GMT
Aminta was fine with a firearm. She was absolutely great with a computer of any sort. She however was not good when people lied. It was her bread and butter most days so she was sensitive to the slightest bent truth. Even more than most. She was actually really good at convincingly lying and as such she was even better at detecting them. She looked to Pepper to see if she’d caught the bent truth and the mixed in lie of Amalia’s statements and her faux care. The blood was easily explained if she’d put a little thought into her story yet she hadn’t and its coppery tang made Aminta to want to tear her a new one.
She couldn’t not yet that would be a distraction form potentially helping Ghis. There was also the fact that Amalia outweighed her was a born scrapper and well losing would be worse than making a scene. Even as scrappy as Pepper was there was the very real chance that one to one that Amalia would come out on top. Aminta in that moment didn’t like her very much. As such she sucked her teeth a habit she was beginning to pick up from spending so much time here. It was a great affectation that could mean almost anything and mostly meant derision.
Pepper had told her months ago that she wanted her around to help lead but this was not what she’d envisioned. She wasn’t sure what she envisioned but she’d assumed with the monsters gone that things would have been as quiet and easy as it had been these last few months. This she hadn’t expected she knew it was something more than Amalia was saying. The way to get to the truth was the difficult portion.
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Regina of the Décès Ombre Pride
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Post by Pepper LeForge on Sept 11, 2016 18:03:11 GMT
The low rumbling roar of warning in her throat cut the lies off after she'd heard enough. Her beast rose and with it her loose but present ties to gates and chidera who were probably not awake just yet. So while the other was physically bigger her aura had tons more weight behind it" the tears are at best unnecessary and at worse an insult to my intelligence.so I appreciate the info and if you have more that will help us recover our family the please do so if not then kindly sit down somewhere and pray she ain't Sainted due to your bull shit because if she is dead or doesn't live after we bring her home..Baby you are gonna wish you were the one we had to come looking for"
Her voice was as cold as it had ever been she hated being lied to and promises broken more than anything in the world. If she challenged over this pepper would accept but set the terms and be very smart about how she took her out. She'd hate to loose two potentially instead of none but she was Regina like it or not.
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