Question about this plot because it sounds amazing...
Okie do we have to join the pride to be in the plot. Or can a lion say be in the wrong place at the wrong time and contract the illness/get attacked and whatnot.
I have a female named Shani and she should be a teen when this all goes down. Anyway she leaves her parents because they bore her to go off and find a 'tougher' so to speak pride. I want her to have run ins with some of the lions here at this pride so she learns a lesson and goes back with her parents.
I don't mind if she gets one or two good bites/scratches. But nothing drastically serious. Just enough for her to realise she's not as tough as she thought she was. And I'm down for her contracting the illness as long as it doesn't kill her and she'll recover from it- no long term damage.
Shani