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U'yosi G'vhi sighed, looking around for Asa'nunu. When he failed to see her, he mused that she must be elsewhere, but she was always well able to take care of herself. He sat under his accustomed tree, one large paw folded over, and realised that he did not know where his offspring were. His eyes softened slightly with both anxiousness and pride as he slowly got to his feet. Those two. The new ones, born of this strange land they had come to. His son, Asegi Waya, pure white, eager to please and becoming stronger every day. And Tsi'lihu Waya, his likewise cloud-marked daughter, the tattoos shining on her pale coat, her brother's younger and sidekick , though it was she who was the hope of the once great and powerful clan he had mated into. U'yosi tossed his shaggy head a little, eyes deep in thought, and began to pad slowly off into the heat of the sun to look for them.

Asa'nunu was in fact elsewhere, she was padding down along the edge of the Amanzim'tsetse, just far enough from the bank to not be in immediate danger of being snatched up by a hungry gator. Her paws did this subconsiously, as her mind was other places. The breeze slid along her smooth fur and she jerked her head up, as if waking from a reverie.

She'd been thinking of her mother and the clan again. It was hard to pull herself from her grieving, and many times she just stayed within its cold embrace. An absent thought entered her head, one of her mate. The young lion had not seen U'yosi in quite a while, and it worried her. For about a heartbeat, and then she went on to thinking of other things.

He didn't realize Asa'nunu just wanted to be left alone to grieve. But even the adu'ladi knew that wasn't possible. But they deserved her grief! She growled lowly at the ground before her, plopping her rear end onto the grasses beneth her. This way she was torn between her clan already gone, and the clan that still needed her.

"I miss you, mother," she whispered, drawing a paw down to the ground and suddenly ripping at the grass there. It wasn't fair, none of it was, but what could Asa'nunu do? Her heart still ached, as if it had been ripped out only with the rising of the sun. Curling up into a small ball, she dozed, half-closed eyes focusing on the fluffy snow-white clouds above her. Sleep was one of the few times she could rid herself of her hurting.

Rather small white paws trodded down on the reddish brown dirt, the cub left small foot prints as he went. His ears rose a little and listened around for any signs of his family, he had brought a great gift for his mother. boy oh boy was she gonna be proud of him! The limp tail of a small field mouse hung from his maw. He trotted along happily, looking some what like serpent, sticking its tounge out. In the distance he saw a figure, it was a lion alright, hopefully his mother so he could show her what he had caught. He advanced into a quick jog, grinning madly. As he got closer he saw that it was infact, not his mother. His spirits fell and his jog slowed to a walk and he slowly trodded over to the lion that was his father. His ears picked up the lion calling his name, along with his sisters, Asegi shrugged, maybe he wanted something. His mind then wandered to the where abouts of his sister, he hadn't seen her in a while. He shook his head to clear the thoughts as he stepped up near his father and looked up, tumbling the mouse around in his mouth as he spoke,

"Heyyy Dad, whass goin' on?"

His speech wasn't all too garbled, he had some practice with talking with his mouth full in the past. He grinned up at his father and waited for his respnse, maybe he knew where mom was...

The white lion beamed, mom was gonna love her gift, now that he had his father's assurance, he knew she would, mom and dad knew each other best! He grinned and carefully spit the mouse out near a small collecton of rocks. The dead critter tumbled and collected some dirt but Asegi didn't care, he'd lick it off later. He pounced over to his dad and growled playfully,

"No way! I caught it all by myself! I don't even know where Tsi'hilu is.... Have you seen mom around?"

He tilted his head with his question, surely dad would know, he knew every thing!

U'yosi twitched a thick furred ear as a sound echoed from the river. Turning his head slightly, he frowned in case some alligator or other had crawled from the waters, to attack him and his little son. Mane bristling slightly, he caught sight of a patch of white fur, and a slinking figure larger than that of his absent daughter.
"Asa'nunu..." He said under his breath. She was avoiding him again, he realised with a resigned sigh and bitter smile. However, he determined that Asegi should not be put off by this. "I think your mother may appreciate your gift," he encouraged his son. He himself may not be in his mate's favour, but perhaps one who held the hopeof making the Wolf Clan strong again might.

Tsi'lihu, padded along the ground rather lazily, or rather... in a way that would have reminded others of something that was trying to make herself seem unnoticed; her head was held low, her lithe frame moving in slow soft motions, never once making any sudden movements. It was something she had come to do as of lately... if others did not notice her presence, she wasn't forced to interact with them. However though, this did not mean the small white cub was antisocial; not at all, it was more of a shyness she couldn't quite brush away... others intimidated her, and when she was intimidated she found it imposible to talk, clamming herself up inside her own mind.

Her ears twitched lightly before they perked upon hearing her father's call. She never once wondered what he wanted, she never once wondered why he had called, she simplt speed up to a light trot, reaching the river banks just as her brother troted up to their mother. Tilting her head to one side, she decided against going over, and instead padded over to U'yosi, letting out a soft purr as she passed under him for all greetting, then she simply lay down, never once opening her maw to talk, eyes drifting up to watch her father, a soft barely noticeable smile touching her lips.

Instantly her ears flattened against the soft furr of her head as she pondered. What HAD she been doing today? Walking... mainly walking. And thinking. And daydreaming; she did it a lot... afterall, when she withdrew into her own fantasy world, everything was perfect, no one ever suffered. Tsi'lihu opened her mouth to say something, then suddenly shut them again, frowning, almost as if pondering exactly what she should say, and how.

Talking was such a terribly difficult bussiness. She wasn't always able to express what she thought in words, they didn't come out sounding the same as she thought it would, but she tried anyhow, "Thinking..." her voice was soft, almost musical, however, it was clearly unused. She smiled softly at the larger lion, her ears perking up, a hint of pride within the gleam of her emerald eyes before she trotted after him, "Think lots, about many things... I dream." this said, she fell silent, turning her head to eye both her mother and brother, a distant longing in her features.