username; ☁Lady Raincloud☁
lion name; Erin lion gender; lioness
pride; https://toyhou.se/TheLadyRaincloud/char ... er:1004843 pride status; Ambassador
prompt;To be given her role of ambassador at this day and time, when the castle halls were strangely quiet and still, and each room the face of death was worn upon the faces of the sick.
Erin was immune. She had never even gotten a slight headache, or a brief cough during the plague. She was young and strong, able to hunt and fight, and smart too- and yet found she could do no nothing to stop the deaths. Finally, the last crown princess, the only survivor of the royal family who lived in the kingdom, had died.
She asked herself at the funeral, helping the carry the carpet that held the dead princess- what can we do now? We have no leader to lead us, so many adults have died, leaving children parentless, so many healers have succumbed as well, no one know s what to do.
The illness dissipated over the coming week; the survivors spent their days hunting for what they could, and in a shocked, disinterested silence, distracted in their thoughts, crying and weeping for their loved ones in the cover of night. Through the stone flooring, although it was thick,
Erin could hear the cries of mothers calling for children, husbands- children weeping in the comforting paws of their last surviving relatives- and siblings who dare not look towards the grave that held their brother or sister.
And no one did anything.
She was the only one who focused, who seemed to think ahead. She knew that one of the royals as alive, but far away- the youngest son, a nomadic soul who had left them seasons ago to find himself out beyond the jungle, beyond the desert.
Erin was the ambassador but she no longer held a job in a broken kingdom- no one did. No kingdom or pride, no creature for miles wanted to do business with the plagued Kingdom, for fear of catching it.
But Archimedes, her old friend- he wouldn't stay far away if he knew what had happened.
She left alone, telling no one. She dangered scorching heat, and dusty winds, and sometimes hours to days without a good supply of food and water. At last she bowed at the feet of what had been her play mate, her fellow troublemaker in lighter days.
"My king. Your family has fallen and our people are dying. Please come back with me, and restore us to what we once were. Bring them hope, for they have none left. And I cannot do it alone."