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Of course her father was fun. He enjoyed playing with them, he cared for them well, and was small enough for them to overpower him if they worked together... which was always fun to do, so long as she didn't get too dirty doing it. But even after that, her daddy was brilliant yet again - being as OCD about being clean as her, he was excellent at cleaning her off when she needed it. In her opinion, the perfect father.

An approving smile lit up her face as Tetemeko started washing his fur, certain the other lion would be much more presentable once he was cleaned up. She arched an eyebrow, though, as she spoke while she watched him. "You mean the way you disturbed my sunbathing with flying mud?" She nodded slightly, pondering his point, accepting it but not agreeing with it. "I see what you're saying - the dirt isn't an obstacle for your fun. But dirt is still horrible, so if it's there and in the way, you could always go and do something else that's not quite as... dirty, but still fun. Which is what I would do. Dirt makes everything not much fun for me."

Sineri looked up at the sun for a moment, agreeing that this wasn't quite sunbathing weather any more. Gingerly, she let herself lay down, settling herself and then stretching out slowly, trying to minimise the amount of dust and dirt she got on her coat that she'd have to spend time cleaning off later - or that her father would. "It was better weather when I fell asleep. That must have been quite a while ago." She actually laughed at Tete then, an oddly delicate, quiet sound that almost didn't fit with her earlier stern attitude. It fit how she looked, though; looking at her, one would guess she was exactly like that, sweet and kind, and nothing more. "It's obvious you think getting dirty is fun. I just... don't get it. Being dirty feels so... icky," she said, for lack of a better word.

Her lips quirked in a smile. "See, even you like sunbathing. It beats being dirty any day, don't you agree?" Her tone matched Tete's matter-of-factness, not feeling like she'd got one over on him, just feeling that he'd admitted a point she agreed with.

She gave him a look over, noting the mud stains still on his white fur, her nose wrinkling. His white fur made the dirt stand out more in a way that made her glad her fur wasn't so... clean-coloured. It'd make it even harder for her to keep it clean, and that would drive her crazy. Still, he was cleaner than he had been, and that was a major improvement.

She smiled lazily, stretching a bit, as if remembering how comfortable it was to lay under the sun and let it warm her. "It's not a bad way to spend a few hours."

She nodded slowly, having to agree with that. "Well... yes... I suppose that's true. A cloudy day, like today, isn't good for sunbathing. But there are always other fun things to do. Clean things." She looked up at the cloudy sky while thinking of an example, and then her eyes drifted slowly toward the watering hole, the sparkling of it drawing her attention. "Like playing in the water. That's always fun... and you use water to get clean. Perfect fun."

Sineri blinked with surprise as Tete ambled away from her and to the water, having not expected it at all. He wanted to play with her in the water? He actually knew how to have sensible fun? A little smile was tugging at her lips as she lifted herself to her feet, though, and she began to pad forward toward the water, tail flicking behind her. "All right, I will."

She stopped at the water's edge, apparently examining how muddy the water was, testing it with a paw as though gauging how dirty it would make her fur. Her attention was apparently all on her foot as she withdrew it from the water again and put it back on the ground, then abruptly and without warning launched herself at Tete, sailing toward him in a well-aimed pounce and grinning widely, making a loud "HA!" as she did. She was aiming to catch him off guard and topple him into the cleaner, deeper water. She didn't mind playing in muddy water - she could always move into the cleaner water after - but she'd rather splash around in the cleaner, if she could.

Sineri laughed gleefully as she heard that yelp, knowing she'd succeeded in fooling yet another person. It was one of her strengths, she thought. Sin knew she looked perfectly innocent and unlikely to do anything like what she'd done to Tete, and often she used that to her advantage. She let herself fall away from Tete as he stumbled back from her, standing up in the water, the line of the surface a bit below her belly.

She yelped a bit herself as Tete made a jump at her, backing up a bit, but all Tetemeko managed to do was splash water at her. Shaking her head to clear the water from her eyes, she grinned at him. "Expect the unexpected!" she said, as she reared up on her back legs and then brought her paws down against the water again, splashing him in return.

Tete was right, Sin's splashing did distract her from what Tete did. What little sunshine there was made the water bright, and almost white. She mistook it for the outline of Tetemeko, and only when she stopped did she notice he wasn't there. Her brows furrowed in confusion, and she looked around, expecting to find him in the water near her, but when he wasn't in sight, she frowned. Where had he gone? She looked down by chance, and that was when she saw him. Close. Too close for her to have much chance of getting away from him now. With another yelp, she stumbled back, trying to get away from him and back to the safety of dry land, but the water slowed her movements.

Sineri squeaked as Tete continued to splash water and try to dive at her, struggling her way over to dry land, clambering until she stood just above ankle deep in the water, shaking and flinging droplets of water every which way. She quickly moved her eyes back to the water to find Tete, her body tensed and alert, ready for him to make another dive at her, the smile on her face big and gleeful.

Sin watched him come closer to her, half-expecting him to pounce and half-expecting him to collapse to take a breather, and her grin turned slightly lopsided as she waited to see what he'd do. If he wanted to take a quick rest, however, he wouldn't get a long one. She was having fun, more fun than she'd had with a stranger for a long time, and she wasn't about to let him stop now.

But he chose to jump at her again, which was much better. With a sound that was some kind of cross between a squeal and a giggle, she tried to jump back, but she was standing in the muddy/sandy part, with part of the length of her legs in the water. The result was that she didn't get far. As she tried to move back away from him, the water, of course, slowed her down, and her back feet slipped in the soggy ground beneath her, making her land on her side and unable to get away from Tete completely, despite how she scrambled.