As she returned to the jungle she hadn't been in since her own cub hood days, Namita couldn't help thinking back to the friends she'd had here...and almost instantly wondering how Bagheera personally was doing, but...she wondered on the others too.
A group of birds chattering to each other as they fluttered about caught her interest. She peered up, and as they flew pretty close down, she was able to grab one of their attention.
"Um, excuse me, but...what are you all but celebrating?" she asked.
"Oh, haven't you heard?!" one of the birds turned to her, "Shere Khan has been defeated, again, and by the man cub again! The whole jungle has heard by now of how he is stuck in the bottom of a pit to bother us no more".
As the panther looked a mix of shocked and confused to hear of Shere Khan's fate yet nothing of why, the bird smiled apologetically, "but of course, you're new here", he landed and went through the tale starting with what he general animals knew of the man cub's finding to his fleeing when Shere Khan returned on to later when he and the tiger seemed to reappear at the same time.
"Oh my..." Namita frowned to hear it all, apparently the prideful cub she'd last seen had grown a site more bitter over the years. She wondered why, really.
"Well...I guess it's good the jungle being at peace, though still regrettable" she sighed.
Not really getting and kind of ignoring the later part, the bird flapped up, "Yes, and I must spread this peace news on!" he said, flying off with his fellows.
Namita watched them go and then shook her head, "Shere Khan an all out tyrant against innocent man cubs now...gosh, who'd have thought...".
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Meanwhile, in the pit Mowgli had trapped him in, the 'all out tyrant' was anything but happy, his swipes had since freed him, though with a tight squeeze, from the skull, but now he was in a worse predicament...he still was surrounded by lava and trapped.
At least that buzzard had finally left! Shere Khan would have tortured him to extents even he would have found quite mean if the chatty thing hadn't eventually been pulled along by his fellows (ooc:...yeah, Lucky did survived right...)
"This...is beyond below what a king of the jungle should be treated like!" Shere Khan had worked tirelessly to go from a cub once laughed at by an orangutan to someone who chocked the very words from an animals mouth before they could even think of doing such a dangerous act as laugh at him...though it didn't stop some bird brains...
"Stuck in a pit..." he leapt to try and climb from the pit once more, though fell to the precarious slabe of rock floating in the lava once more, "...and the jungle celebrates a man cub his indignity rather than sides wiht me!". He leapt and missed once more, growling in frustration and rage.
