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"It did," Ota said with a sad smile, "Though I'm worried about what Umepatwa is getting himself into, but we've no right to stop him. Tonight is in no small part because of him."

She stopped walking now that she was joined by Batu, turning back to look at the crowd and where the younger crew stood talking and joking. It was a nice change of pace, even if it might be the last bit of peace until this was over.

"There's no turning back now," she said, looking back at Batu, "He may already know about tonight, but we'll need to warn Meshach. The King won't wait long to respond to something like this. He'll take Umepatwa's bait but he'll still blame his uncle, too."

She was quiet but dropped all pretense of keeping Meshach's presence a secret. If they were overheard now, it didn't matter. Shangyue knew where his uncle was, he had known since Kamia had her cubs.

The black and white lion bowed his head. "You are right. I will go to warn him now. Too many eyes are on you. They may know Meshach is still around, but we don't want to lead them right to him.

"I will duck away now." he told her. He waited only a moment before he slipped into the shadows and away from the group. It had been awhile since he had been out to see Meshach. Despite the fact that he would be bringing Meshach bad news he was somewhat looking forward to seeing his old friend.