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Madi'molôi had little care for staying in one place for very long. There was always someone coming in, demanding something, wanting something. It was just easier to move and enjoy one's self. He'd settle down some other time. Even with the thunder behind him, he didn't pay much mind to it, thinking that if anything, it would be 'refreshing'. Looking around there wasn't much that interested him so much as there were things that were just enjoyable to look at for the sake of looking. Like a potential hole for some small animal. A nice snack perhaps. You never knew your luck after all.

As he got closer, he froze as a stray branch cracked under his weight. Damn. He kept still, hoping that he'd not alerted anything to the point of suspicion.

Well dang. No small thing to snack on late at night it seemed. But, company was always welcome, even if they might try to chase him off. Wouldn't be the first time, or the last time. In the distance the thunder boomed. It might begin to rain soon, and... maybe he would need to find shelter. Maybe. It sounded like a female, but he couldn't see her very well from her spot, so, Madi simply sat where he was, tail flicking slightly.

"I don't really pay much mind to territories. Enough to stay out of a majority of the trouble at least. Not like the land is going anywhere, just myself." Shaking out his mane he squinted trying to get a look at her. "Mind coming out of there or will I need to go to you?"

Madi shook out his mane again, seeming undisturbed, or at least not very. The idea of being enslaved was not promising. He'd rather like to avoid such a thing. "I'll keep an ear out for them. Being stuck under someone's paw doesn't really appeal to me very much." Stretching out he gave a brief yawn. The female wasn't attacking him or making demands, so, he was good so far, but hey, he didn't know, maybe it was a trap. Looking around he smelled at the air, not catching anything in the wind.

"Thank you for the warning though. Next time I'll try to come by with a different skin." He grinned best he could. "My name is Madi'molôi, and I have no pride. Never had, probably never will. In any event, think I'd be safe for the night, the thunderstorm enough of a deterrent to keep them from slave hunting or whatever it is they do?"

"If you don't believe in it all... why stay and support it? Seems a bit counter productive, but hey, part of why I don't have one I guess." He rolled his shoulder in a half shrug. "I'm too independent? It's a hard life certainly, but it's less restrictive, and I needn't worry about another male accusing me of something or other, or a female telling me I'm being lazy." A smile. "Even if I am. Its just nicer not to hear it all the time."

Laying down in the dirt, he rolled onto his back. He was calm, unafraid- or just blindly trusting. "Then come and sleep out under the stars, I mean, I did disturb you I guess, but sleeping in a tree's roots is hardly good for prime star gazing." He blew at the tuff of fur over his eye. "And call me Madi. And would it be alright if I called you Maansi?"

He nodded, granted it was odd, nodding while laying back, but it was still a nod. "Love is complicated. But also simple. You don't have explain much beyond that. And for demons being interesting... If they don't like my fur colors and would capture me for it I think I'm good staying ignorant of them. Or at least out of their way." His tail flicked as flies came over, one landing on his nose. Damn bugs.

Swatting it away he went on. "The cloud gazing. Both are changing and even if it does rain, the worst is you catch a cold because you don't know your own limits." He motioned over to her tree. "We can always hide anyway, and with quick bath would get rid of any lingering scent, or you could tell them you chased off some rouge male who was out looking for gazelle." One lion looked at the other. "But if you don't mind me asking, what really keeps you from leaving right now? If no one knows you are here... will they chase you down? Seems like a snails crawl to freedom to stay, even if wanting to know more."

He laughed, rolling back onto his stomach. "Don't think me wise, more like- accepting. I mean, I just said a while ago I knew pretty much nothing about your pride or what they do." He swat at the bugs flying at his nose again. Ah they'd be gone soon enough with the rain.
"What is more important, knowledge, happiness, or life? I like to think they're all equally important. If you lack in one, it starts to drain the others." His ear twitched as the roll of thunder was closer. It wouldn't be very long now until the rain came by the drops rolling in the distance.

"It'll be morning by the time the rain stops." Getting up he stretched out. "Go where your paws take you, do as you can." A grin. "You could go right now even, I came in and they never saw me. Who's to say they'll spy two wandering lions on the fringes, moving away?"

Truthfully Madi was half listening at that point, his ears more focused on the sound of the wind and thunder in the distance. But, he didn't miss much. "Only a fool will think themselves wise." Another glance at the storm clouds. Move fast or stay... either way it was going to be a wet night. She was leaving though and-
"Well if you're going then why should I be staying?" He smiled. "If you don't mind a traveling companion that is. And pleas don't say it like that." He smile got wider. "You make it sound like we'd never see each other again."