Registering what Asi had said, she gave him a small smile, curling her tail over the four newborns. Hearing the small mewls from them, she inched closer. Perhaps they were cold? She watched Asi also distibute to keeping the cubbins warm, and began to purr.

Okay, sleeptime whilst the babies fed and then nestled to sleep. "'night, Asi." She murmured, lying her head down once more. "loveyou," Aww, she hadn't said that in a while now, had she?

Within minutes, the charcoal lioness was caried away into the sweet oblivion of sleep.