username; ToxicShadow
lion name; Nika
lion gender; Female
pride; Oddity Pridepride status; Undecided Member
prompt;It had started out as nothing more than a large rock, in a small clearing among the trees in their pride lands.
But Nika, the sometimes simple lion that she is, kept returning to it, lying against the rock whenever she needed a moment of quiet. And in the midday sun, she would sometimes take a small nap there, resting peacefully.
Other members came to refer to the rock, not creatively, but still as "Nika's rock." And knowing she went there to relax, others left her, and the rock, be. There was hardly anything special about it to them, but she had grown fond of it, and there was no reason for them to interfere with that. She
did have the tendency to grow very attached to things, even if it
was just a rock or some other inanimate object.
Eventually, Nika began paying a little more attention to different sorts of rocks and stones in her travels through the pride lands and the surrounding areas, all because of
her rock.
It was not long, then, before she started gathering up unique or interesting stones, at least those that she managed to carry back, and begin to arrange them within the very clearing where only the one large rock had originally stood.
Since then, Nika has amassed a hefty collection of small rocks, and the occasional larger ones with the assistance of other pride members lending her a paw in her new hobby. She spends much of her free time arranging them and rearranging them, forming a pleasant and almost therapeutic rock garden which she has become very proud of, and still considers to be her own little sanctuary. Though,
sometimes she is willing to let others to relax there or join her in arranging them, too.