He had managed, by dint of...of sheer willpower (it would never do to call it luck) to make it to the second round of the Sky Ceremony! This was a vast improvement over last year and, to make things even better, Yinehi had lost in the first round. Tsi-Tsi would be happy to lord it over her for the next year.
But that was for later. Right now he had to worry about Uhamba Kalyani. He didn't know the lioness that well, but they were of an age. Of course, he wondered if maybe he'd lose to her because, well, lions weren't supposed to beat up lionesses. Also last year a lioness had soundly beaten him. Unconscious. It hadn't been pleasant.
Needless to say, Tsi-Tsi wasn't looking forward to a possible repeat of that, even if it was in the second round instead of the first.
