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Thuraya kept scavenging and quickly found another small bone that she tucked away into her pouch. She was getting pretty lucky with the shells and small bones. If nothing else at the end of this she would be able to mkae herself some jewellery and possible a few tools.

She eyed the rib bones and the skull, she knew that the skul would be going no where but there were still a number of rib bones that needed to be taken care of. The blue lioness was pretty sure that she still had it in her to drag another few up to the dens.

[Oh my god Kicheko stop playing with the the dang skull]

Returning from the sea, Kicheko headed back to the skull. "I can't believe its brains aren't even in here anymore," she said, going through the skull the back way where the spine had once connected but had since fallen out. "Man, I bet it was the size of my whole chest!" That would have been fun to poke. Did whales have brains? Probably. Everything that was living had a brain...except plants. Well. As far as she knew, anyway.

Admittedly appalled that his concerned gesture had wound up so poorly received, it certainly had to make the unsuperstitious wonder if Mermaid's Purses might have just been bad luck! Catamaran didn't have time to apologize or help the little lioness up before he found himself on the receiving end of an unexpected assault. Teetering on his paws as he was muscled several strides away from the female he had accidentally knocked over. Whoa! Look I'm sorry I didn't mean for that to--

It wasn't like him to apologize so quickly, but Cata earnestly felt guilty for his actions. The fact that her companion wasn't about to let him off so easy though, irked him.

Strychnos had personally heard enough from the smooth-talking stranger. Honestly, the guy got under his fur and he was tired of looking at that smug face. Without waiting to hear him out, Stryc gave the other another strong shove. I don't give a s**t what you have to say! Just get lost! Get away from her!

Prepared for the attack this time Catamaran dug in and barely budged at the second push, ears pinning against the deep blue of his mane. While the dark male with his glowing markings was off balance on three legs, Catamaran charged him, arms wrapping around his shoulders as the pair went down in the small indentation where Kawasemi had previously been laying.

It took falling into her imprint for Strychnos to realize that he'd lost track of the troublesome Kawa. Whatever anger he felt at Catamaran was lost in his immediately growing concern, shoving away from the male who held his shoulders in order to stand quickly. Spinning in several tight circles both moonwise and counter-moonwise in search of her easily spotted pelt. Damnit! Where did she go? Kawasemi! Kawasemi?!

Shaking the sand from his fur Catamaran rose as well, abashed that his frustration had gotten the better of him, though the emotion wasn't completely shaken. The rogue may not have been the friendliest of characters, but it was clear he cared about cheerful little angel. Hey. Calm down. I'll help you find her.

There was a trickle of blood dripping down Strychnos' flank, Cata realized as he followed the trail of crimson dots on the sand. It lead to the jagged piece of shell Strychnos had fallen on when they'd wrestled each other to the ground. He also noticed that the Mermaid's Purse was gone. I think I know where she went..

The lion had trouble comprehending that anything actually lived within those fragile shells. After all, so far he'd only seen them empty. Something called to him that he ought to split a few open and examine their insides, but he felt that would very likely upset Kicheko. It wouldn't be worth it, he'd just need to find some sooner dead.

"I wonder how intelligent they are," he said as he pulled the largest cervical vertebrae from the sand, rolling it over between his paws. It was enormous, and dense. It would take some serious work from them to make these bones useful, but if they could he was sure what they made would last a long long time. "The whales, I mean. Are they always alone like this? Do they have families? Are they cruel?" These were the questions that continuously plagued his mind whenever he encountered something foreign.

Doria had noticed that the lioness hadn't answered her, and in truth had tried to let it not bother her. She was however, relieved when the lioness came over to respond. Doria admired her collection of pretty seashells and the work she'd been doing collecting the bones.

She gave Thuraya a smile and introduced herself. "Hi Thuraya, I'm Doria, I'm new here." She supposed it was probably obvious to the rest of the pride that she was new, not only would they never have seen her before, but she was making an obvious effort to talk to the others.

Her dark paws found another mermaids purse and she felt a cold jolt pass through her body. "Ugh!" Scurrying closer to the water she threw it in, just as she did with the last one.

"I don't seem to be quite as lucky, that's my second one!" Her orange eyes widened as she stared at the ground by her paws, how many of them were there?

Thuraya smiled, "I am pretty new here too, I joined just before this whale found itself on our shores." Despite having the colours of a bahari lion and looking like she had come from the see, Thuraya was in fact born and raised in the middle of a forrest, quite a distance from the ocean.

"Its a great place to live." Thuraya had been quite happy when she joined the Bahari and fit in quite quickly. While she talked Thuraya continued to paw at the ground finding another little bone that she tucked away wondering what tools she might be able to make from it.

"I am lucky I haven't found any mermaid purses yet." To be honest Thuraya was quite nervous about finding one, she didn't need any bad luck.

"Where did you use to live, before here I mean?" Thuraya always liked to learn about others lives stories, and she figured a good conversation would make the work easier and more fun.