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Kijibwa grins and gives the little lioness a playful nudge when she starts to laugh at his story. It's not like he expected much else from her when telling the story of his first hunt, it is kind of funny after all.

"Don't worry about it," he says, laughing when she apologizes, "but we'll see what happens when you start hunting around all these trees." He grins.

"Though, you may be more agile than me," Kiji winks at her, laughing. She may not be smaller than he was when he ran into the tree the first time, but it wouldn't surprise him if she was more graceful than he was.

"We'll see, won't we?" he laughs, now eager to sit back and watch Siku hunt in the trees. With or without crashing into some trees, it looks to be quite entertaining. Heck, it's entertaining watching her get excited about going right now.

"Alright," he says, "We have our plan, we know what our general pace should be, we know where we're going, no goodbyes to say.. we are ready to go."

Kijibwa looks from Siku back out to the horizon, the horizon that has the Jungle somewhere out beyond it.

"That's right," he agrees, "You won't have to go away forever, there are other places to see than the Jungle."

Thinking on that, he considers future plans. If he headed back this way, finding out what's on the other side of the Pridelands might be an interest adventure as well. But that wouldn't be for awhile, they were heading for the jungle!

Kijibwa takes a couple steps in the direction they'll soon be heading, nodding for her to start along with him. Discussions can take place while walking slowly, they aren't going to go into anything very quickly- especially since they aren't finished planning, it seems.

"Well, we probably won't run the whole way," he says, glancing back the way they'd come from, "It should take about twice as long as it took us to get here, I'd think. We didn't go too quickly, but not so slow.."

He stops and looks at Siku thoughtfully for a moment.

"What could happen?" Kiji asks, sounding curious.

Kijibwa sits and leans down to look Siku in the eyes at her own eye-level instead, and he keeps a smile on his face. He can agree that he hopes nothing would happen, having never really worried about such things before..

"I don't think anything will happen," he replies, "I don't normally worry about things, which makes it good one of us worries a bit more about those things. Siku, if anything happens, the jungle is straight this way.." His eyes move to the direction they'd walked several steps in.

"If you lose me for too long, just go to the jungle," he nods, "I won't go far without you, but if we do get separated then we can just meet there. Anything else that could happen.. well, we'll be there together to worry about it."

He sits back upright, "Alright?"

Kijibwa, already leaning close to her, is about to nod assuringly when she suddenly sits and assumes a trance-like gaze. His head tilts to the side, "Siku?"

How odd.

He takes a step back to make room for his paw, which he waves infront of her eyes. The trance, seeming only to last seconds to him, ends abruptly when his paw is in mid-wave, startling the lion. He jumps back and watches as Siku looks around madly, as if she was sure she's seen a ghost.

This suspicion isn't eased when he's suddenly asked if he saw.. that. He raises an eyebrow and shakes his head at her, looking somewhere between curious and concerned.

"No," he says, "What was all of that about?"

That was quite strange compared to, well, everything that has happened with the little lioness. Different. Very different.

Kijibwa keeps his eyes on Siku curiously as he waits for her to explain. He straightens up a little when she says she saw something, and does the first thing he could think of- he takes a good look around them. While he's looking, though, Siku continues- and as soon as he hears 'the Jungle' he turns to face the little lioness again.

He can't help but look a bit confused at what she says. Kijibwa doesn't say anything until Siku asks him what he thinks it was, at which point he makes a thoughtful sound.

"It sounds like a dream to me," he says, leaning into Siku to take a look at her face, "Maybe you fell asleep for a couple seconds. Are you tired?" He doesn't bother to think about how he's never heard of anything falling asleep for a very brief time while they otherwise seemed wide awake.

Kijibwa tilts his head at her assertion, keeping his eyes on her when she says it wasn't sleep, or a dream. The only other thing he can think of is that maybe she's seeing things, but in spite of his naivety he's positive she wouldn't like being called crazy. He lets her try to think of a better way to explain it without being interupted.

Then she panics.

He jumps, startled by her sudden reaction to her revelation. Visions aren't normal, but should she be so upset about not being normal? Words stammer out of his mouth, but he doesn't say anything- he's not used to someone panicking.

Would it be mean to pretend she is dreaming? She's certainly in a good position to be 'woken up'..

No, he can't do that.

"Don't be like that, Siku," he murmurs finally, "I don't think we're - er- you're dreaming, I mean I'm pretty sure I'm awake, but it's not a bad thing to have visions! Normal isn't important."

He walks over to her and leans down, nudging at the paws over her eyes with his nose.