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"Do you guys welcome families within the pride? Fel and I are no spring chickens, but we would like to welcome a second litter into our lives at some point."
She smiled with a little nod.
She looked over to Shani, and motioned that she speak up with any questions, and that ignorance would not be an excuse for stupidity later on down the line.

"I should like to join classes as well, and if you could be so kind as to set up a meeting with the pride leaders with myself, Id greatly appreciate it."
She chuckled.

"You have to take classes if you join, else you aren't admitted to the pride - this is so you can understand the culture you've joined and so ignorance on your part or neglect on ours can't be an excuse if rules are broken. For those born in the pride there are lessons for all age groups, because some jobs require on-going training, so there's no age limit. But they also aren't too intense or too long, the courses, and the quicker you learn the quicker they end. Besides our days are split up. If you're working and in class from dawn until midday you won't be working and in class midday to nightfall for example." The wolf paused to clear her throat, muttering a quick 'excuse me' and wondering if she was talking too much. They'd be able to hear all this from someone actually in charge later. But Macheo'd offered to answer questions, so, it'd only be courteous to continue.

"You are all only limited in rank by your own drive and skills when it comes to what you wish to do. The nobles are no longer the only ones to be taught so they are no longer the only ones with high rank. Though really, a hunter who helps keep our bodies fed is as valued as the priest that keeps our gods contented." She hoped that point got across. It was a reform of the old ways that had to be repeated and repeated, because some just didn't get it. Their Pharaoh was quite adamant about it, that all of the ranks were important and that none were to be looked down upon like in the days of his uncle's rule. Why, one of his own daughters was a dedicated huntress despite being a princess because that was where her skills and passion lay.

"And you'd certainly be able to try for more family. It's a large pride and we care for our young. There's been some very large litters recently and in all the seasons I've been here there's been at least one litter. So there's quite a few lions about around your age Shani." She cast a sly smile towards the young lioness. Ah to have courtable males around you. Macheo loved her life here but she'd have to find a mate from outside the pride. In the plague and wars of the past most of her kind in the Tuait'tekem were killed or scattered to the wilds.

"Though...this will be explained later but have you heard of marriage before?"

Val knew that marriage meant bonding. Its something her Hyena father who had raised her had said. She remembered it quite clearly, though she wondered if this was the same kind of marriage that she was speaking of. She could only assume so, based on what the conversation had been about...family.

"Classes, eh? What a brilliant idea. I like a pride that has actual intelligence over brawn." She replied, hoping she wouldnt offend by her statement, though she didnt mean it in the slightest way to be bad. She was used to seeing prides that relished the strong.. This one relished the smart, or.. at least the ones with common sense. Or so she was assuming.