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It was a lovely sunny day, and Sineri intended to make the most of it, for Tetemeko was nowhere in sight today, and she had no worry he'd accidentally get mud all over her again. Not that their meeting hadn't turned out good in the end, but since he liked to dig a lot, apparently, she didn't want to see him all the time. Too much of a risk, she decided.

She approached the water, where she intended to sunbathe this morning, as it was close to home, but stopped at the sight of Seziken. Once again, she thought there were simply too many lions milling about the lands; you couldn't go somewhere worthwhile without company either being there already or showing up soon after. It was quite the nuisance at times, especially since she preferred to sun herself in quiet and solitude. Her father, though, had impressed manners upon her, so she couldn't very well tell Seziken to go away so she could relax. He'd been here first.

She crouched by the water's edge, her pink tongue dipping below the surface to scoop up a drink, and after this she did intend to mosey off somewhere else to see if it was at all possible to find somewhere without anyone to disturb her.

Seziken guessed correctly; Sineri was, actually, a princess of sorts. At the very least, she was a member of the royal Pridelander family. Her grandfathers were Mufasa and Scar respectively, though she only knew about Mufasa. The late and great king was her beloved father's grandfather; Sineri had never met her mother to find out about her lineage from that side of her gene pool.

Her tongue stopped lapping at the water as he spoke, and her red eyes lifted to look at him. He wanted to talk, and she wanted to sunbathe in quiet. Lovely. Still, she loved her father Ezeoha dearly, and he wanted her to have good manners, whether he was there or not.

"Sineri," she replied, lifting her head again. "Well, I'm always here somewhere. Haven't seen you, either. Are you new to the lands?" He most certainly did not have the traditional Pridelander colours, so her question was natural.

Despite her attitude, she was hurt by her mother's absence as well, though she knew she didn't know the whole story behind it all, and so tried to keep it in check. Though, what child would not feel hurt and perhaps even angered at being left behind by a parent, and a mother no less, who was supposed to nurture and care for her young the most? No, she was hurt... she just buried it deep down, until she knew all the facts that surrounded the issue. The result was something that could, perhaps, be taken for indifference, and caused the calm and fairly neutral expression on her face as she slowly sat, curling her tail around her paws.

"Maybe," she said in reply. "Maybe there was a reason for leaving us all." She had been thinking about what this reason could be for a long time. She just had to get the courage to ask her father for the full story.

Fortunately, Sineri couldn't read minds, either. If she had possessed this extraordinary ability, she would have walked away from Sekizen right then and there. Such a snap judgement about her personality would have irked her an incredible amount, and she would have regarded his shallow-mindedness and apparent habit of jumping to conclusions in the same way he regarded her supposed ignorance.

But since Sekizen kept everything hidden, she got not a hint of what he was thinking about her.

"I don't want to know my mother on any personal level. If she doesn't want me, I don't want her. All I want to know is if there was a valid reason for leaving my father alone with five cubs." She was staring at her reflection now. True, she didn't want a relationship with her mother now; she didn't want to be anything like her. And she was just glad she looked like her father instead of her mother.

Sineri blinked as Sekizen suddenly started looking stressed and desperate, and she realised then that Sekizen probably thought very different about his father than she did about her mother. He seemed to want to believe there was a magical reason that his father wasn't here, rather than the truth of the matter, whatever it may be. Even though he might be one of the lucky ones, and a legitimate reason might keep his family from being whole, Sineri doubted it. If you looked around, there were a lot of single parents in the world, in the pride, even. It was just... one of those things she'd decided to accept, because she couldn't change it.

But while she thought she may have gone too far for him, distressed him more than she should have, even if it had been accidental, that didn't stop her from being honest.

While Sekizen's words made sense to her, she shook her head. She didn't believe that. "If there was a good reason why she couldn't be here, my father would have told us about it long ago. No, I don't think it was unavoidable that she had to leave."

Sineri frowned as a neutral and blank look came over Sekizen's face, and somehow it freaked her out. Well... not freaking her out as in giving her the heebie jeebies or anything; it just seemed unnatural for someone as young as him to look like he had as much feeling as the boulder she'd sunned herself on yesterday. It was weird... Shouldn't he be bouncing around and making a nuisance of himself? That was what her brothers and sisters did all the time. But though she'd like them all to just shut the heck up sometimes, how Sekizen was would not be what she had in mind.

"Why do you do that?" she asked abruptly, staring at his face, that which seemed to lack any definite expression, even leaning closer to him from across the little pool of water.