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Calyn glared at the ground, ears against her head. "What's it for?" she asked quietly, bitterly. A meeting about an attack on her, and she wouldn't be there.

Tami watched Calyn, looking to her mentor a moment later. "Zephre, it's not that far. If it's stemmed it shouldn't start again, and if I were to go with her just to make sure nothing happened. I know how to stop it, you've shown me what to do..." she trailed off, catching Calyn's hopeful look out of the corner of her eye. "And, she is the Hunter's Second. She can't not be there, especially because it was about what happened to her. And I doubt Calyn would want to look like she doesn't have the strength to go..." she added.

"Of course, as it always is," Bianca answered, standing up. "We may as well go ahead and get them inside so they'll settle down a bit before we have to leave."

Bianca let out a short junting growl which the cubs knew to be the worse sound. Dissappointed groans were emited as they went back to the den, following Sahari or Konya. Bianca stayed back and remarked the territories around the cubs playing area and gave a roar when teh process was complete. She then picked up Sophia in her mouth when she found her lagging behind from her small stature.

Sahari nodded in response, turning to lead the cubs back to the den. Bianca's growl rolled through the air, and Sahari tapped Daniel on the shoulder with her tail, guiding him back to the den. He seemed disappointed, yet all the cubs were upset that their play-time had been cut short. The stocky Sand Cat herded the cubs back into the den, and paused just by the entrance, waiting for Bianca to appear.

Grumbling quietly, Jasper picked himself off of Jacqueline. "C'mon, we haveta go back," he meowed, nudging her gently before scampering off after his mother and the other Den-Watchers. His tail twitched, and he was distracted by a moth fluttering among the tall grasses that bordered the path. "Pretty!" he grinned a toothy grin, and pounced forward, paws reaching above him to try and capture the moth's gray wings between his claws, but his sudden movements alerted it to its hunter. The moth escaped, and Jazzie rolled past, tumbling through the grasses. Jasper, slightly disappointed at his miscapture, watched it flap away until it disappeared among the golden-green stalks before returning to the path, slipping back into line, hoping not to get into trouble for his small adventure.

Cirrocumo watched the Den-Watches lead the cubs back into the main den. With a small smile as he noted a small panther, Konya's son, try and pounce after a moth; the young tom either was not suited for the life of a Hunter, or else he had much to learn. Still grinning at the thought, Cirro nodded in response to Mira. His mahogany eyes found her amber ones. "Yes, it would be - we certainly have different techniques than the others," he responded thoughtfully. Often, the Pride had practised driving prey under a tree in which Cirro hid, and he'd jump down and help take down their quarry, this tactic using everyone's skills to their advantage. But Cirro had never hunted with another of his species by themselves with no other interferance; it'd be a nice change.

"It's weird hunting with the pride. I'm so used to hunting in the trees." Mira held his gaze for a moment before looking away, the intire reason she had left the pride yesterday was because of her last hunt. She had gotten mad that she had to hunt with the prides way and she couldn't seem to get it down. She sighed wondering if she would ever adjust fully to life in the pride.

Brindle fixed Tami with a hard stare. Finally she sighed, the young leopard had a point.
"Very well. Zephre I trust you don't mind us borrowing your apprentice?"
"Not at all." Came the lion's eventual reply. He would rather have his patient where he could keep an eye on her, but saw little harm in his apprentice's suggestion.
"Tami, take the rest of the herbs with you. We'll go in search of more when you return. In the mean time..." Zephre padded over to Bianca, giving her an exaggerated bow, dipping one paw under his chest and throwing the other out in front of him. "Please allow me to help Konya mind the cubs while you are away."

Brindle nodded to Calyn before moving closer and keeping her voice to a low whisper. "We need to find out who our allies are. I'm hoping this council will help with that."
Brindle withdrew, making it look like she was just checking her second's injuries. For now, she trusted very few.
"Lets go then, we're wasting daylight." She glanced at Kiros, asking with an expression if he was ready as well.

The council cave was the only cave visible from the main den. The others were hidden by folds of ancient stone or too small or low to be spotted. Inside was cool and dry, the scents of many other cats lingering after they had sheltered in it last night.
Brindle walked slowly to the back, climbing up a shallow incline to sit just in front of a ledge about half her height off the ground. The ledge skirted most of the cave and dipped in places. It was on the highest points that the leaders usually sat, the lower parts of the ledge were reserved for seconds and the floor was for the rest of the pride. Now though, Brindle wanted a small council that could be conducted in low voices and not easily overheard, so she sat on the floor and waited for the others to take their places.

Konya laid down a bit far from the dens entrance and sat jasper down in front of her. She whistled to let the cubs know to come to her while the other den-watchers left. They started to climb and play with her as they came in. She held jasper where he was and started to clean him. "You know better than to go out of the boundary lines, i've told you it's very dangerous for little cubs like you. There's no telling what's hiding in the grass waiting to grab you." She continued licking him affectionately. "You know not to worry me like that."

((I'm sorry for not being on the past couple days, had a buisy weekend.))

Kiros followed Brindle and Calyn into the council cave and took his place on the floor sitting back on his legs looking very proud but also humble at the same time. He could not beleive himself that he was in the council cave. This was a place he never dared to enter unless he was invited. He looked around the cave studying it and all the places.