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"Don't worry about it," he beams, not really caring about how he's had to spend his cubhood without much of a family- seeing Amoret once in awhile had been enough. He grins when she accepts his offer, looking even more excited.

"Great! It'll be so much fun to show someone else around," he says with a vigorous nod, "I haven't really travelled with anyone before, so it'll be new for me too."

Wow, this was such a sudden change in direction- what made him suddenly miss the lands beyond the pridelands? Describing it to Siku must have made him realize how much he missed a change of scenery. He doesn't even think about where they'll go, or when exactly they'll leave.

"Good!" Kijibwa says with an affirmative nod, looking quite excited, "We can work on hunting, too- it's easy to get good at those things when you don't have a pride to do it for you. Or, I think so anyway."

He looks back and fourth between the way he'd come from and the way he'd been heading before, "Do you have to tell your mother and father, or just go?" His tone is a little more calm and curious, he doesn't know much about if children are supposed to tell their parents before they leave, never having had such experience.

"Oh, all right then," he grins, "If you don't need to tell them, then we can go now. It's not so exciting right now though, 'cause I think we're quite a ways into the Pridelands. We just have to start working on that."

He turns himself right around, to the direction he'd come from.

"That way, you think?" He asks with a grin. They could go that way, but surely the Pridelands aren't endless and another direction would take them somewhere else that's new.

The looks thoughtfully all around, not saving any energy as he turns himself the whole way around as he looks. Kiji stops finally, ignoring a slight dizzy feeling, facing the direction he'd come from.

"Oook," he says with a grin, starting to wonder if all pridal lions are kept from exploring since Kiburi, Kiuma and Siku all seem[ed] eager to leave their home to see what else is out there.

"The jungle?" He asks, tilting his head, "That's a good idea! I know the way there best, anyway." He turns his head and smiles at her, not minding that she doesn't really look at him.

"Well!" He puffs up a bit, his eyes looking off in the distance of the direction they would soon be going- nothing looks amiss to him, though in the past he has been caught off guard. Of course, they shouldn't have to be too careful in pride territory, especially with a pridemember no one would know is leaving.

"Different?" he glances back at Siku, "I guess you could say that, yeah. I don't think living with a bunch of lions in one place is much the same as when you keep moving and stick to yourself."

He pauses.

"Or with just one or two other lions," he grins at her, "It will be, I guess."

Kijibwa nods at her, then turns himself to be in direct line of the way they want to go. He grins at her slightly nervous tone that doesn't quite match her eager words, "This way, then. We have to start somewhere, and this is where we start."

He nods matter-of-factly, tosses his head, and then takes a couple steps forward before making sure she moves along as well.

Kijibwa nods, "Alright, just making sure." He grins and turns back to the way he was going, this time picking up the pace as he moves from a walk to a jog- starting out slower is better now, for they won't get out of the Pridelands all at once.

(( Neh, that's ok XD Mine've shortened as well.

*pokes at your sig* o.o ))