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It had been several uneventful days for the king of the Blood, and he was glad of it; for he'd been feeling the soreness in his muscles and joints, the soreness that heralded old age. Of course he said nothing to anyone of it; if it got around that the King Makadari was getting weak, no doubt Kiu would take that opportunity to try and overthrow him. And Makadari wasn't ready for that yet. No, he would hang on to his throne, by the skin of his claws if he had to.

He was reclining near the oasis. He'd drunk his fill several minutes ago, and now was relaxing under the shade of one of the few trees in the area. Every now and then his tail twitched, a sign that the lion was indeed still alive despite his closed eyes and relaxed position.

He wasn't yet aware of the crow perched above him.

The King wasn't truly asleep, no. He heard the caw and was opening his eyes as the crow spoke. He looked up to see the source of the noise perched in the tree above him. He is, he told her in a low voice, indulging in her game by speaking of himself in the third person. And you've disturbed him from his rest.

He rose and placed his paws on the trunk of the tree, his claws outstretched. And Makadari began to climb. He was old, and his limbs ached, but he was by no means to old to climb a tree. It shook a bit under his weight, but as he shifted his weight from the trunk of the tree to its first branch, it held miraculously.

Taks shifted the sand under her paws anxiously, glaring over the sand dunes, searcing for the sparkle of an oasis. Turning her attention to the fox, the cheetah walked over to her side, blocking out the sun with her body. It had slipped her mind that the fox was probably insanely tired and probably going blind as well. Her face softened as she worried herself over Yakuti's well being.

"Are you doing okay, Yaku?"

Teule followed behind Mwali and on the other side of Yakuti, feeling slightly better now that the akward feeling had diminished some. He looked back again, feeling sort of bad at the sight of Jasiri. Had he hurt her feeling when he had just nodded. Im too young for this.. Like the first time he had gone hunting, Taa had said he was too young for it and he felt very nervous when he had tried hunting. It was almost the same tihgn he was feeling now, confused and unknowing.

Wokovu stayed silent to her lie and just went back to watching the animals infront of him. Until then jasi suddenly cheered up and ran to teule.. His ears folded back a bit.. He felt.. ignored..? no.. jelious. Yes, he was jelious.. he did feel ignored ofcourse thats what caused the jeliosy, but he wanted all three of them to be friends, and jasi seemed to be ignoring him.. and ontop of that she was trying to steal his brother away from him.
Well atleast thsts what the cub's imgination had led him to belive..

Yakuti blinked, ear flicking twards her friend "Yea i'm fin-" she was cut short by yelping as she was suddenly very aware of a large snake she had almost stepped on, and had immediatly jumped away from it on reaction. She backed up some more to try to make sure she was away from it..
The bad thing here was she couldn't see it. If she hadn't heard the small hiss of a warning she would have stepped right on it, and now it was complete silence and blurred light..
Not something her system was happy with.

Wokovu froze as his mom did suddenly out of his thoughts of jeliousy and wondering what was going on.. Though as soon as he noticed the snake he started edging up to it "Whoa what is that..?" he asked in awe, unknowning of the danger the snake held.

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Jasi thought for a moment. "Well...I might have passed it while I jornied, but that was along time ago, so I can remember it that well. Sounds wonderful though, all the soft green grass to roll and play in. Ive been so tired of this itchy sand." She swated at the sand, amking some fly at Teule, carefully so she wouldnt hit his eyes.

After departing from the small gathering of lions, cheetah, and fox Kinja made her way back to her little ones whom were (hopefully) in the thicket. As she moved across the hot sand she kept all her senses alert so that should Makadari or any of the other lionesses appeared she would be ready to make up an excuse for her being out here in the desert like she was.

The hot sand did little to calm her down, in fact, it was only making her more aggrivated. Now she knew why the pride layed in the shade all day long, her paws were beginning to burn. Finally though, the thicket came into view. She heaved a soft sigh of relief and took off at a faster pace to her 'home' where her little cubs were.

Kimeti, at this point, was quite bored and had actually falled asleep on his fathers head. The gentle movement of his chest moving up and down indicated that he was in a deep slumber, dreaming of some wonderful fantasy of his.

Kinja slowed as she reached the entrance of the thicket. She sigh in relief as the cooler ground shaded by the thicket branches came in contact with her paws. She took that moment of relief to allow her body to stretch before entering her little adobe.

She smiled at the sight that was before her. All her little ones were sleeping soundly, seemingly unworried about her absence, which was a wonderful thing to see. A chuckle escaped her at the sight of Kiu with Kimeti on his head. She walked over to the two and gently picked Kimeti up and off her mate's head, making sure not to bother her sleeping cub. She placed Kimeti with his sisters and brother before walking over to Kiu and resting beside him, allowing her body to lay against his. "Have a nice nap?" She grinned evily at him, oh, it was apprent that the lion had taken a nap, but since all were there and accounted for she was really in no mood for chastising.

As Kimeti was picked up from his father's head he stirred slightly, opening one tired eye for a few moments to see his mother carrying him towards his siblings. He yawned and stretched a bit but as soon as he was placed back on the ground he was back within his dreams once again.