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As he came back towards the whale skeleton Kaikane couldn't help but to grin at the lioness who was inspecting a smaller bone. I wonder if she thinks it would make a fancy trinket to have? Tilting his head the lion studied her for a second before noticing something that she had missed next to the other bones, "Care for a second piece?"

He flushed lightly as he dropped the small bone in front of Brimlad, "Just figured it might look pretty with the other one you found as well." It definitely did have a certain shimmer to it after being in the sand and sun for so long. As much as he brawled though the lion figured a guard like him would have no use for such a thing so why not give it to another?

"I should probably go see if I can help carry another bone." Nodding politely the large lion began to look around once more.

[[ Haha I'm not here to win the lovely prizes, just to participate. x3 ]]



He hadn't been present for the feast as he'd had additional duties to attend to; but when it came to the heavy lifting and hard work that the pride and their neighbours were putting in to moving the rather large obstacle from their shoreline, it would have been remiss of him to leave all the work to them! Thus the lion had descended from the cliff faces and on to the sandy beach to assist in the task. Suffice to say, it came as quite a surprise to see so many lions here - he hadn't realised Athena had been quite so charismatic.

Food for thought perhaps?

Still, with a small smile and an expression that was clearly impressed, the lion slipped through the hustle and bustle of cubs and adults alike to turn his attention to the whale bones. Now, here was the real question, would his 'old' bones be able to be of use or was he completely, and utterly, out of shape!

A mermaid's purse? He wrinkled his nose when Athena mentioned throwing it back. he'd rather not ever touch the thing again. Fortunately, Kicheko did it for him. Bad luck though, he preferred not to think about it. He felt he'd had more than his share of bad luck in this life already, no reason to invite more.

"That's true," he assented, "I'd never seen the ocean before I came here. It's beautiful." Though he wasn't sure how someone might have a chat with it. he wasn't one to question the rituals of a place he knew so little about. "My name is Rasul, but I've got so much bad luck I'm not sure the sea would know where its began or ended." He stared at his paws as he said the last, fishing through the sand. Beneath where the mermaid's purse had sad he found a spiral shell, it's exterior ridged with deep orange and white. It wouldn't make much of a tool, but perhaps he could make something beautiful instead.

"Rasul," Kicheko repeated, a grin on her face as she finally got his name. "Well, welcome to the pride. This is one heck of a greeting. This isn't very normal," she added, nodding to the whale as she returned to the rib cage to work at another rib. "The sea doesn't give gifts like this every day. You should have been here a few weeks ago. We had to eat all the meat off this thing to get it to this point!"

As she spoke she got another rib down so, pausing for a moment in their conversation, she grabbed it and dragged it up to join the others. Being one of the den-makers she knew how important it was to get all these ribs up in a timely matter. Now that they were cleaned, it was only a matter of time before a storm came or the tide rose higher than usual and swept the gifts back into the sea.

When she returned, she flashed Rasul another grin. "Maybe the sea will decide you have have so much bad luck that mermaids purses are actually good luck for you."

Doria blinked her bright orange eyes gently as she watched the others. Thus far she had been relatively quite, though the past few weeks had been filled with a new joy. Since happening upon the pride and it's lands, she had felt more at home than ever before. She'd seen the sea once as a cub, and had never ceased talking about it. It had influenced everything, even her name. Now she had found it again she did not intend to let it go.

It would definitely help for her to assist the pride in their efforts to pull apart the large skeleton, so she helped with nothing more than a side glance. Doria was unsuccessful in procuring a rib, but managed to find a shell.

It was beautiful, whorled and speckled with dark colours. Perhaps she'd keep it, it was a reminder of her new adventure.

Once she had managed to bury her shell somewhere safe and a little distance off in the way of safekeeping, she turned her attention towards Rasul.

She was thinking along the same lines as him, it was difficult to imagine what the whale would have been like in the water, swimming around. They were such large and magnificent creatures, and she had never seen one alive. When she had first encountered the skeleton it was a moment of intense fascination. It hadn't seemed to wane.

"It really is huge? Isn't it?"

Doria moved her dark paws to trace some of the indents on the skull, pushing against it firmly. It didn't budge. "Hm."

"Enormous," he agreed, nodding toward the female that had come to join the group. "My father took us through elephant graveyards when I was young, but they always seemed so worn and old. These bones are so bright and there's already life slipping in among them." A crab scuttled past his paws as he spoke, causing him to shuffle a little to the side.

In his haste to avoid crushing the little creature he tripped over a piece projecting up out of the sand. It was bone, that much he could tell, but where it had come from he couldn't venture to guess. Not all parts would be equally as useful, he supposed.

He smiled seeing Kicheko admiring the shell, this really was a much simpler way of life. "I'm sure there will be, if you've all been so blessed in other ways." He glanced back toward the dens, "And there'll certainly be room after all this expansion."