Username: minifun990
Lion Name: Theoros
Lion Gender: Male
Pride: Mystic IslesPride Status: Winter Worker
Prompt: Summer. Theroros breathes in deep, his eyes closing in satisfaction. It is rather early in the morning and yet the sun already warms his fur. By the time summer is beginning to fade Theroros's fur will be starting to bronze from all the sunbathing he is going to do. He faces a world filled with possibilities and freedom, a whole season of relative freedom.
Its especially welcome after the last couple of seasons. He didn't hate his job, not at all and yet it took its toll. He catered to the needs of a dangerous species, keeping them healthy, and fed, and warm and when he could he tried to keep them happy enough to decide to keep him around another year.
The winter was quiet in ways, filled with sleepy snaky bodies as his bosses dozed and hibernated. Theroros would keep huge hearths of wood burning throughout each long and cold day. Constantly gathering firewood and drying it and gathering sticks and pinecones, anything that could burn and making sure it did. And yet he would often still have one of the slumbering beasts awaken, not even often from his own mistakes just to be yelled at, and complained at until the creature fell asleep again. It was stressful and busy and yet often rather boring.
Spring wasn't much better yet, but unlike the carefulness to not wake the beasts he would often wish they could just go back to sleep again. At the beginning of the season they were like young cubs, constantly complaining, asking when it would be time for them to be able to leave the den, and constantly hungry. It made Theoros almost pull his mane out with the constant questions of when it will be warm enough, why hasn't he found a whole deer for dinner yet, why isn't the fire up high enough.
But summer? Summer was different. It was his time off. Free from most responsibilities as his bosses went off to do whatever they do he was able to explore without frantically looking for wood to burn or food to feed them. He could get new hobbies, go for long slow walks. He could do anything he wanted to, as long as he was back for autumn to prepare the hibernation dens once more.
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