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The Male Leopard rarely wandered this close to a lion pride, especially this one. He had once tried to make a move on one of the guards, only to find his bum handed to him in a bruital fight- the one thing he tried to avoid at all cost.

From where he layed, he knew he was rather safe. Reth let out a great yawn as he looked down from a low branch. His eyes widended as he realized a bright green lionness pratically snuck up on him, though it seemed as though she hadn't seen him.

There was no way he wanted to get in another fight with one of these fisty girls, however this ones deminer seemed much different than that of the pervious female he had encountered. He pondered for just a moment before making his move.

"Excuse me miss, might you be able to help me find my way out of this jungle?"

"So sorry miss, usually I put more effort into making sure I don't scare the living daylights out of folks. I do have a tendancy to take lions by surprise..."
The Leopard looked at the female with a rather confused face... even though she didn't look mean, he most certainty wasn't expecting her to greet him with such open paws.

"How did I get up her?" Taken a back by her question, he wasn't exactly sureh ow to answer it. "Well... I go up trees all the time. It's just something I've always been able to do since I was very young."

It became apparent to Reth that she wasn't going to hurt him. He loved the company of females, so it didn't seem like it would hurt any stick with her for awhile.

"Do you know of any good areas to relax around here? I'm a bit tired from traveling in circles all morning." The white leopards tail swished back and forth as he spoke.

"Uh? Oh, sorry then." The male leopard wasn't much surprised at the females answer. Most of the gals here didn't see much worth in spending quality alone time with males.

Reth panicked for a moment as Dauna brought up the fact that he shouldn't be here.... oh, but just a quickly she seemed to have given her an out.

"Why... yes. Are these the K'N lands? I guess I wasn't lost after all!" He said nervously, lying thru his teeth. It was in his best interest to after all, keep this lady happy. The lioness around these parts were notorious for being much stronger than the rogue girls he was use to.

Ugh he seemed to be getting into more of a mess by the minute...

"Excuse me, miss!" He screeched before she could run any further, all Reth needed was for her to bring the attention of his presence to every pride member nearby.

"Like i said, I am very tired from my journey here. Is there any way you could take things slowly? And I would appreciate it if you didn't speak of my decision to join with any other pride members until it's official.. I am rather insecure about my coat color, especially next to your beautiful green coat. I'm not entirely sure they would let in such a dull colored leo... lion like me in this noble pride."

What cheesy lines where coming out of his mouth, but.. until he was safely in reach of the rogue lands, there wasn't much choice.

Reths ears twitched at the look on the Green Lionesses face. What a rollarcoaster of emotions this one had.

"Hun, is there anything wrong?" He crawled so that he was right next to a nearby bush. There was no telling what got her spooked, and it could very well have been another pride member spotting her. Surely other members would realize he wasn't a female lion and possibly try to kill him for being so close to one of their pride members.

"What's wrong with you?" He whispered, trying to keep on the down-low.

"Climb this tree?"

The thing was huge and getting to the top safely would be very risky business, even for a rogue like Reth. Suddenly his one weakness shown thru as he heard the female utter the words "Please".

Once a lovely lady asked for his help, there was no going back.

"Alright... keep an eye out for me." He sighed and started to grasp at the bark on the tree. Lots of it crumbled inbetween his claws as he grasped higher and higher, but he wouldn't progress until he knew for sure he had a good footing.

After several minutes of climbing, he looked back down and the female wasn't even looking up at him... but perhaps this was a good thing, since she might see things on him she hadn't noticed before at ground level.

Finally he reached a thin branch at the top of the canopy. This was an incredibly high distance for any animal to be, even the light weight mammals. He wanted to get down as quickly as possible so he went to work looking for that waterfall.

"There.. There it is!" He pointed one of his paws in the waterfalls direction. These lions had a much bigger pride land that he had previously thought, it might be best to stay as far away from it as possible in the future.

"Alright I'm coming down!"

Before Reth started making his way down the tree, he turned his head to find the direction of the rogue lands.

"Not too far away...." He mumbled to himself. Now how was he going to get away from this female so eager to take him to her leaders? First thing's first: Getting out of this tree.

Everytime he dropped down a little bit more, his pawpads felt like they where on fire. The bark was still coming off as easily as it had before, although it would be expected by wood that most likely hadn't been touched in many years.

Then suddenly.... Crack! Reth let out a howl as he began his freefall to the ground.

"s**t s**t s**t!" He screeched and stretched his paws out with claws fully exposed, flailing them around in hopes of snagging a branch, foliage, anything to break his fall before the fall broke him. The leopard found himself in the path of an outstretched branch from a nearby tree. He grabbed on and the tree moaned with the sudden weight being thrusted upon it. At this point all the leopard could do was hope the branch held out long enough for him to get a steady footing. Although the fall was terrifying, it had gotten him much closer to the ground and with that in much older and stronger branches.

After what seemed like eternity, the branch began to bounce back. The male let out a sigh of relief before darting across even more branches. This was his chance to put as much distance between himself in that female as possible.

Between the females will attack with no mercy and the... simple minded, it was worth the trouble to find a tree elsewhere to spend the night in from now on.

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