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Mnyama was off on her own for the day, which was not unusual. What was unusual was that she was not in a particularly good mood. Her mother was improving a bit, but it also appeared that she was now pregnant. The hare wasn't sure if she was just jealous or thought it was a bad idea in general because of the horrible state her mother had been in when she was young.. surely more kittens was only going to make it worse! So, feeling rather grumpy, she hopped along- wondering where Angavu might have gotten off to. She usually followed the cub around, kept an eye on the adventurous girl- though she had yet to turn her in for anything that someone more cautious might have.

She stumbled to a stop when she suddenly heard something.. singing? Her tall ears perked way up, she did her best to stand on her tippy-toes and look around for the source.

"Hello?" she called.

Mnyama could not SEE anyone, though she was rather amused by the sing-song. She couldn't hear all of the lyrics, but she still found it rather cheery. A distraction was exactly what she needed right now! Forget mom and dad and whatever mess they were getting into now, perhaps whoever this was would be much more interesting.

"Who's Wana?" Mn called back, lowering back onto her paws and hopping towards the source of the voice. She grinned when she suddenly popped out to see a very colorful hare. Or, it was colorful to her- her whole family was white, black and grey!

"Hello!" she greeted the stranger, briefly wondering if all strange hares were colorful. There'd been that green one, too.

Mnyama's nose wrinkled immediately at the idea that she could have been a bug. She might not be very big, but she certainly was no bug! However, she was not terribly offended. It might be easier to mistake those who are not big enough to see right off for things that they are now. However, she still dared to stick her tongue out at the older hare in a very puerile manner.

"You have a trained hyena?" she asked curiously, finding that to be quite odd- until she realized she could probably say the same thing about Meme and Anga. With a smug smile, she said very proudly, "Yeah? I have a trained lion. Two of them."

Mnyama nodded proudly, and then started when Nafsi introduced herself- suddenly reminded that she hadn't introduced herself either! Nafsi's decision to very. carefully. ask. who. she. was.. Mnyama was not impressed, so she raised an eyebrow and decided to answer in the same manner.

"I-am-Mn-ya-ma," she said, very carefully. When Nafsi said her Wana was probably as big as a lion, Mnyama paused and rubbed her nose thoughtfully. She'd never seen a hyena before, but the way Nafsi said she bet he was as big as a lion.. it gave her some reason to doubt it.

"Maybe, but my Meme is pretty big."

Mnyama smiled when Nafsi's story changed to that Wana was just bigger than them, that was something that she would believe. Perhaps she might seek out a hyena some day! She'd really like to see one, but she wondered if Nafsi might be able to produce her Wana so easily right this moment. Perhaps later.. if she dared to ask.. a trained hyena would probably be safer than an untrained one.

"Hares?" she repeated, pulled out of her thoughts, "Yes! Well, my family is here, there are at least four of us. My mom's having more kittens though." Here the jealous older sister crossed her arms.

"And I saw one other hare around before, but dad and Tuli have seen others," she added.

Mnyama's nose twitched as she watched Nafsi curiously, this red one seemed awfully twitchy. What an odd little quirk, but it made her that much more interesting- and thus made Mnyama that much more enthusiastic! She nodded along as Nafis commented on the size of her family.

"Four, plus whatever mama ends up having this time," she reminded Nafsi, then shook her head at the question about Tuli, "No! Not at all! Tuli is my sister, my lions are Meme and Anga."

"Thank you," Mnyama beamed, happy to accept compliments on behalf of her entire family. And of course, she considered Memetuka and her entire family to be her own family as well! Shiri and her brood were around enough, that was why Mnyama kept an eye on Angavu. She was one of the more interesting cubs to follow around anyone, though Mnyama supposed she was biased because Anga was the only girl and not the least, but not the most rambunctious of the bunch.

"Whut?" the hare blinked suddenly when asked to help, to take a look in her eats. Mnyama had no idea what she was looking for, but she took a look- and to her Nafsi's ear looked perfectly normal. Aside from being a bit red, but Mnyama supposed that was from all the scratching and batting at it.

"No?" she offered.