*once proud lioness trudges in, using the last of whatever life she had hung onto for all this time* -- Savanna

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Date Posted: 22:48:42 10/12/01 Fri
Author: Shura
Subject: *once proud lioness trudges in, using the last of whatever life she had hung onto for all this time*

*traveling for days on end in the hot, dry savannah has left her weak. she hasn't eaten or drank in days and is starving and dehydrated. she finally collapses in a lifeless heap. Vultures circle above her and land upon her corpse to feed. her heart still pumps blood through her veins and she feels every single peck from the vultures' beaks as they tear at her flesh. she has failed in her life, as she has produced no offspring that have survived to adult-hood. as the vultures peck at her, the will to survive is so great that she sommons the energy to stand up and chase away the monsters that were eating her alive. she trudges onward. blurry eyes look into the distance, WATER!!! WATER!!! THERE'S WATER!!! she manages to move to a clumsy saunter and heads to the water. but the water keeps moving away, futher, futher, gone... disappointment fills her heart as the water she saw was no more than a mirage. she raises her fragile head to sniff the air, nothing, she can't smell a thing but death. death was too close to her for any kind of comfort, she looks around, nothing but dust and the ocasional dried up bush, she can't even survive till the wet season. the sun beats down on her mercilessly her mouth is dry, her paws are bleeding, and the heat is too intense for her, she collapses again, but this time for the last time. her heart beats its last beats as it rings like the voice of the devil through her whole body. THUMP....... Thump....... thump............. thump.........................

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