Bwana tilted his head in slight confusion when she said she didn't know who her father was. While he no longer had a family, when he did he was very close to both his mother and father. The thought that Lumusi didn't know who her father was was absurd to him. He didn't say so though, he knew that would be rude and he didn't want to botch up the budding friendship that seemed to be growing between them. Catching her question he gazed off into the distance, thinking about a time long past.
"Leave probably isn't the best term....just after I was starting to eat meat and go off on my own- or at least try to, like I've said my mother watched me like a hawk- a big storm hit in the middle of the rainy season. We had been traveling, looking for the herd that my parents usually hunted. My father didn't think the storm was as serious as it really was and so we didn't find shelter or anything. By the time we caught up with the herds all three of us were starving and it was still pouring rain. My parents....they told me to stay in the bushes while they went and hunted. While they were gone the storm got worse, there was a lot of lightning and thunder and the hollow I was hiding in filled up with water. At first I stayed but once the hollow was all the way full I knew I couldn't stay under the bush. So, I crawled out and walked the area until I found this big rock that was slanted. I'd never seen a rock like it before but....the underneath it was dry so I curled up there and waited for my parents. Only, they never came back. Ever since I've been on my own."
Blinking he shook himself a bit and then looked back to the little lioness in front of him. "Wow, I didn't realize my story was that long. Sorry if I bored you." He chuckled trying to ignore the fact that, in his mind, he had just relived the night he was orphaned.
