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"You beat me here, you just... crashed into the finish line," he says with another chuckle, "I have no doubts in my mind that you'll adapt well to here, you've shown you're quite capable of change. You're different than you were when I first met you." Kijibwa smiles brightly at her, then turns back to the trees to find something familier to help him find his way to water.

"Yeah, it'll be nice to have water so close after that trip," he agrees, going at a fair pace and looking around at all of the trees.

Kijibwa pauses in his steps and looks carefully around at the trees they are by, then turns to the right and keeps walking. He doesn't look back at Siku to see her embarassment, though he can hear hints of it in her voice. His smile never leaves his face.

"You sure have," he says firmly, but happily, "The little lioness I first met wouldn't have tried so hard in that race, or she wouldn't have turned back to say something. That means, though, she wouldn't have hit a tree, but everyone should go through that at least once."

He glances back at her with a grin.

"Well, the deeper we go into the jungle, the farther we are away from the desert," he explains with a nod, "The farther we are from the desert, the more water there is, so the easier it is for the trees to grow. So they probably are getting bigger and thicker here."

He looks up at the leaves in the trees, reveling in the shade they provided from the sun- something neither lion has had in days. Suddenly the faint sound of water can be heard nearby, and he comes to a stop. With a knowing smile, he turns to Siku.

"Do you hear it?"

His ears still turned towards the water, he smiles at Siku until she finally comes out of her thoughts and listens. Kiji turns his head in the right direction and then takes a couple steps that way.

"Right this way," he says as an explanation, speeding up a bit and weaving through the trees at a comfortable, managable pace. It's only a short walk before they reach the source of the sound, a thin but very long clearing from the trees with a stream going through it.

"Water," he beams, but his eyes are turned upstream.

Kijibwa turns his eyes back from upstream to the lioness, laughing at her reaction to the water. She must be used to just ponds or lakes- still water. He grins mischeviously at her, and nods.

"Oh, it does move like that," he replies, "But just you wait!"

He takes several bouncy steps in the direction he's been watching, fully aware of where he is now. It pays to spend your childhood in the jungle, even if only for moments like this.

"Come this way," Kiji calls back to Siku, continuing along.

"You'll know when you see it," he replies, his tone eager and playful. There's no doubt in the lion's mind she'd know what she's looking for when she sees it, it'll be hard to miss in fact. The farther they go, the louder the sound of the rushing water seems to become, and they do pass by a pool of water in the midst of the stream, filled by tiny a tiny drop off, and continuing the stream by another.

They don't go far before what Kijibwa is leading her to comes into view upstream, feeding the brook they follow. Amongst the trees is a great cliff, and from the cliff falls a great waterfall that makes the streams it feeds dull in comparison.

When the lion spots it, he grins and glances back to Siku.

He chuckles at Siku's reaction to seeing the waterfall, and circles back around so he's behind her when she sits down. There he stands for a moment while she absorbs the sight, and finally asks about it.

"Well, you'd never guess but it's called a waterfall," Kiji replies brightly, giving her a nudge, "We can go closer, it'll be a good first real stop in the jungle."

Kijibwa is positively beaming. He could not have planned this better, it's just luck that the first water he found was something he knows, leading to something perfect for a first timer to see! Not that crashing into a tree and having moving water wasn't a lot, but this is something else.