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Out in the sunlight these pieces proved to be quite glittery. She dragged these far away from the entrance to her burrow, hoping that predators who noticed them wouldn't be guided right back to her home. This task seemed to take an enormous amount of time, and the very last piece she was forced to leave in her burrow, leaning up against the wall as a sort of decoration.

Perhaps, she sighed to herself, these objects were some sort of sign from the gods. If only she could parse out just what it meant...

It seemed almost inevitable when she found yet another object buried in the dirt. This time, it was an old egg. It was quite fragile and crumbled away as she tried to move it. She was unsure concerning what sort of bird it had been from but it's contents had long since been removed. Maybe the baby had hatched, maybe it had been eaten. There was no way too know.

Fionntan watched as others started to dig. So this was the dried out oasis? The juvenile was kinda excited, not that he would tell anyone that since he prefered to keep a calm, cool expression on his face. Still! He wondered if he could find anything out here...sticking out his paw the young lion felt his claws dig into the soft ground. Was it okay for him to dig here? Looking around he checked to make sure that no one was coming his way. It seemed to be clear, so Fionntan decided that this was going to be his first spot.

"Well let's see what I can find." With a small smile the juvenile began to dig.

After all the obstacles she'd faced that day, the egg seemed like quite the welcome break, even a refreshing one. She soon had it cleared out (she hadn't moved it far from her hole, there was little chance a predator would care much about an old egg shell), and returned to digging in her now not so little hole. Maybe. Maybe if she dug out all the items, she wondered, their mysterious meaning would be apparent.

She smiled. Little hope in that, really, but if her entire day was going to be like this she may as well enjoy it...

Another object caught her attention as she dug at the floor to her burrow. This one was cool to the touch, similar in texture to the necklace she'd already dug out. This was small enough to drag up too the surface, so she did so. There, she cleared off the dirt and held it up to the light so she could have a good look at it. It was interesting, but not worth anything more to her then any of the other things she'd pulled out of the hole that day.

She was not so enthralled by it though, that she didn't notice the lioness approaching her. Dropping the trinket, she scurried back into her hole.

Much to her surprise, the lioness didn't even try to pursue her. She merely said, "I will be taking this," as she picked up the trinket.

Niwaa was barely brave enough to stick her head out of her burrow to watch the strange lioness walk away.


(( This pretty birdie please! <3 1. Female Bird ))

Meeper felt he had so much to do today. Cleaning out his den, watching for predatures, and he still needed breakfast. A single bug was far from enough. Determined to find more for his breakfast the meerkat set to work. He moved to a damp spot and started to furriously dig. A nice juicy worm would do well to fill his belly.

The second food item he found was another insect. A beetle. It went down quickly and he went back to digging. He moved down a little to a fresh spot. Soon he was rewarded with a juicy worm. Chomping down, Meeper looked around to observed the others that were around.

Fionntan dug further into the dirt after having already discovered some weird thing. It might have been a religious artifact, but for what he didn't know. Honestly the carving slightly disturbed him so he pushed it back behind him while he began to dig again. Still he paused in his digging to look back around. Should he pick another location? No. He decided to try the same spot again. Maybe this time he would find something better. The juvenile nodded before pushing his way further into the ground.

The glittering of white bones in sunlight caused Tanuri to look up from his digging, and he saw that he was close to the white lioness who had found a necklace very similar to his own. Smirking, the male felt a distant sort of bond to the lioness. She was treasure hunting, like he was, and had even found a necklace just like he had.

Hmph, well...their new pass-time wasn't that bad. There were a lot of other things he'd rather do, he guessed...but for now, he didn't mind digging through the sand, nicked paw and all.

Tanuri remained within a considerable distance of the white lioness, but his eyes were now and then focused on a few cubs, too. He didn't really know how to handle cubs, and so he made sure he was well away from them.

After a few more moments of digging, the lion pulled up a small box of some kind. It had once been painted a bright color, but it was obviously very old and faded and...kind of ugly. The lion attempted to open the box a number of times before frustration caused him to kick the casket aside and move on to a new spot. Useless junk, hmph, he didn't want it anyway...

Bone necklace clinking with every step, Momo scanned the oasis bed for a new digging spot. She flicked her tail behind her a few times, creating a welcomed breeze against her ankles. This action brought her mind back to heat and thirst, and the lioness shook her head with a growl to toughen herself up. She hated over-thinking things, but it was a part of her she wasn't sure she could change.

Feeling a little bit down despite the cub-like happiness she had felt by finding a few new trinkets, Momo was eager to get digging again to forget about her racing mind. She watched a few little ones try their paws at digging, then her gaze wandered back to the red male lion. He seemed frustrated at what he had most recently found, and Momo felt a faint smile tug at her lips. She got back to digging.

After only a brief moment, the female's paws touched something familiar and she pulled up her find. It was another necklace, strewn up with bones and very old, rather crusty feathers. Blinking in disbelief, the lioness pulled her new necklace over her head and, forgetting herself, threw a grin at the male red lion. She never expected that this gesture would actually be seen and cause her to make eye contact, but it did. She stiffly turned around and walked to a new spot.

She had heard rumors of something going up by the oasis and ever curious she had decided to check it out. Of course she had let her parents know here she was going, but she was no longer a young cub but almost an adolescent and she figured that so long as she was still on pride land she would be pretty safe from anything too big, bad a ugly.

Thus is was with a light heart and the excitement of the young, that Kuza set off on her self-appointed mission: to find out what had everyone else in such a stir. It wasn't long before she found the oasis and the already fairly large collection of lions and other creatures digging about in the drying muck. Giggling and more than happy to 'lend a paw', Kuza squirmed through the mass of bodies to the center, wanting to see what everyone was up to and what they were apparently searching for. Watching as an older lion pulled something large out of the riverbed, she grinned. Treasure!! Unperturbed by the mess she dug in, paws flying as she set about digging her own hole. What would she find?