#v:redwall

[majordomo-zazu]

@thatwasprettyhardcore

Zazu watched as the last of the hawk bandits flew off into the air. His joints ached from the daring chase he had just endured through the hills and valleys of China, until their numbers had got the better of him and he was pushed to the ground. 

He was lucky the tiger had shown up when she had.

“Oh...thank you, dearly.” he groaned, sitting up.

“I’m alright, I think.” A thought suddenly occurred to him and he hastily opened his knapsack, but he breathed a sigh of relief.

“Good...I don’t think they broke anything.”

[majordomo-zazu]

@the-alchemical-key

Zazu sat on his perch in the main hall, next to Mufasa and Sarabi’s massive thrones. The normally bustling room was all-but-deserted, barring the pair of lioness guards stationed at either side of the massive doors. Why they had let this little rabbit in, he didn’t know, but he supposed it was Nala’s first time on proper guard duty, given that her mother was away with the King and Queen on their trip.

“Once again young man, I am sorry, but the King and Queen are not receiving visitors at this moment. Please try again on another day.”

[majordomo-zazu]

/In the Redwall verse, I imagine the castle where the Royal Family lives as actually built into Pride Rock. The ledge where heirs are presented would be there but would resemble more of a balcony, and there would be stairs up to the pinnacle surrounded by a wall, so it resembles a castle tower. The main cave would have a pair of huge doors in front of it, and the rest of the castle would use as much as the natural rock caves and passages as possible, though proper functioning rooms would be built around them.

Something similar too this, but with Pride Rock instead

[majordomo-zazu]

@sisinisawa

Zazu flew along the wall that made up the boundary of the Pridelands. The great stone structure wound its way around the Kingdom’s borders, the first line of defense against any invaders. Inside the walls lay the vast savannah with a few scatterings of villages and camps, and the city of Pride Rock at its center, where its namesake towered above the buildings.

As he gave a salute to one of the lioness guards patrolling the wall-top, movement caught his eye. Flying a little closer, he could see a figure sulking along close to the wall, heavily cloaked and carrying something on her back. Her hunched back, long tail, and light legs gave her away:

A hyena. Not expressly forbidden in the Pridelands, but definitely...unorthodox.

“Excuse me Madam!” he called, swooping downwards, the emblem of the King clearly visible on his chest.

“Can I...help you?”

[majordomo-zazu]

@trustinyourmaster I continued

“Oh, thank you. It’s just that I didn’t really want to attend this ‘Festival’ thing in the valley tonight without an...escort.”

In an effort to seem as disinterested as possible, as well as searching for an excuse not to go, Zazu went on. “You’re sure my being in your company won’t be at all frowned upon? The Grand Master with some unknown foreign dignitary...”