Inkesha's interesting encounter
A week after the incident with Keyta Inkesha set off to forage alone. She crept further from the troop through the misty jungle toward an evergreen fruit tree, which she had spotted, yielding exotic, purple, spherical fruit with a diameter of 1.5 meters. During her trip she had to pass through the spaces between spreading shrubs greater than her in height. Having pressed herself through one of the small gaps the sight which unfolded in front of her surprised her greatly. A young, fully grown, snow white-furred, sky blue-eyed male standing on his fours right in front of her was glancing back at her. The areas of his body which weren't covered with hairs glowed pink in color. Inkesha had never seen such a specimen among her species before.
"I assume you've never seen an albino before," said the stranger, breaking the quietness.
"No, I haven't," replied Inkesha shyly.
"I thought so," responded the male. "Otherwise you wouldn't be staring at me like a tyrannosaurus rex that just got struck by lightning," he added.
Inkesha imagined the dinosaur in the simile: a freshly electrocuted T-Rex with smoke seeping out of his skin, his mouth gaping open with drool flowing out in a narrow, glutinous stream, his arms swiftly and uncontrollably quivering and his eyes which had become like a frog's, large and serious. She giggled at what her imagination produced.
"You think it's funny? When a few of my troop mates and I were little we actually saw a tyrannosaur get struck by lightning during a storm. We ventured close to it, grabbed some sticks and began poking it to see if it was really dead. It didn't even move a muscle. Then, we crawled near to its head and just stared into its eye which was widened out of fright and stared up into the sky. A minute later the eye looked straight at us, we jumped up startled and sped back to the band, each of us rushing to our mothers while the dinosaur was getting up. We ended up luring it to the band. Nice going, Fari and friends. I will never forget that, it scared me to death when it suddenly looked at us," reported the albino. "By the way, my name's Fari."
Inkesha described how she envisioned the shocked T-Rex right after the white gorilla used it in a simile. This made him laugh. After this, the female introduced herself. Then, the two kept conversing as they crawled toward the fruit tree so that she could have breakfast. She was in the middle of eating when Terk abruptly exploded out of the bushes, whose foliage rustled loudly, and rapidly dashed past Fari and her with Kong in her tracks. She speedily climbed up the tree followed by her mate. The leafy branches concealed the couple, only the swishing of the leaves could be heard which indicated their presence. A short while later their hasty descending which grew in volume became more and more audible. After Terkina reached the ground she turned around, with great momentum she began galloping but could only make a short distance due to the unique sight of the white male. She instantly halted which made Kong, who was already on the ground, crash into her from behind. The female fell forward on her face, the male landed on top of her.
"Get off of me, Kong," said Terk in an irritated voice. "Kong, you hear me?"
King Kong didn't react, he was ogling in awe at the white-furred, blue-eyed gorilla.
"Kong, I'm talking to you," said the gorilla lady in a raised, annoyed tone.
The silverback snapped out of his daze.
"Oh, sorry," he replied rising from Terkina then, stepped aside.
He and his wife continued visually examining Fari as the mentioned male stared at Terk's hair. Inkesha ended the silence.
"King Kong, Terkina, this is Fari, Fari, this is King Kong and Terkina," she said.
The new acquaintances greeted each other then, further conversation followed this.
"Do you have a troop," enquired Kong. "If I may ask, you don't have to answer if you don't want to, but why are you a different color," he added out of curiosity.
"I'm an albino. I was born this way, with white fur, blue eyes, pink skin and I'm sensitive to too much sunlight, I get sunburned if I'm in the sun for too long. My eyes are also more sensitive to bright light than average eyes are. About 25% of my troop is albino, I think it has to do with inbreeding. The females sired by the two silverback brothers in my band were somehow unsuccessful in finding other troops to join, so some of them mated with their uncles. About a third of the babies born from these unions, including me, ended up with albinism. A few, regardless of being albino or not, were stillborn. The uncle-niece courtships continued, soon 25% of our band consisted of albinos. I used to belong to this troop but yesterday I got driven away from them by my father and uncle because I became a silverback not too long ago, so currently, I don't have a band. I decided to settle near this tree which gives me plenty of food," he answered.
Inkesha continued her eating where she left off.
"Our troop is located close to where you are. To avoid conflict it's best that at least one of us should head back to them and report you to the elders and that you mean no harm. There have been no cases of albinism in our band so if you come into contact with them don't be taken aback if you get stared at, get questions about your exterior and unintentionally startle children. Oh, and I advise you not to approach females especially when they are alone, the males may think you are interested in mating with them. You can be close to Terk, if she wants you to, but don't try to have your way with her, she's my life-mate. If you do, you're going to suffer dire consequences. I see you have started getting acquainted with Inkesha. If she wants you to, you can hang out with her. I also suggest you don't draw near our troop on your own, they may see you as a threat, moreover they haven't seen an albino gorilla before, they will probably get frightened at your sight, they probably don't even know they exist and how they get albinism," expounded Kong.
The male turned to his wife.
"Terk, do you want to go back to the band with me while continuing where we left off," he asked.
"Yes," responded the female excitedly.
She bolted, the silverback chased her.
Fari glanced at Inkesha questioningly.
"They're doing what they call a 'love chase'. King Kong goes after Terk at top speed while Terk tries not to get caught. Sometimes Terk pursues Kong," explained the female.
Fari and Inkesha continued getting to know each other. The next day the gorilla lady roved back to the place where she had yesterday's breakfast and found Fari again. As a result she wandered away from the band each day to meet him.
