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((Nousha is one of two of Minttu's "ghosts" or split personalities))

"Where are we heading?" Minttu asked curiously. She had to admit, Nousha might have been paying attention when she was asked to wander so far out of the pride, but Minttu most definitely wasn't.

'North, duh!'

"Gee, because saying that is really helpful."

'You sound like Hathor, can't you just be happy for once?'

"Yes... No. Sort of." She sighed. Minttu had just left some desert ruins and was given a new mission as soon as she had returned. She had little time to drop off the scrolls with the ancient ruin marking engraved into them before setting out to a new destination. Only she didn't know where this destination was, and Nousha wasn't telling her.

"Do you even know what way we're going?"

'Um... Sort of but not really.'

"... Again, very helpful of you." Minttu was ready to give up and go home. She wasn't sure what she was looking for, she didn't know where she was going and her first ghost Nousha wouldn't give her a moment of peace!

'Um... We're heading... Northish.'

Minttu sighed again and hoped it would convey a decent message to Nousha to shut up.

Out of the corner of her eye she managed to spot a cheetah of some sort running towards her. "Hmm?" She stopped her walking in order to look up and with doing so confirmed it was indeed a cheetah, and that this cheetah was accompanied by another. Two strangers?!

'Stop being so nervous.' Nousha piped in. "Easy for you to say." Minttu muttered in response. She was terribly shy when it came to meeting new people, unless the circumstances were surrounding literature and folklore in which case the green lioness wouldn't shut up easily.

But that wasn't the case today, the cheetah... Well, cheetahs came running over and shouting hello or something. Minttu tensed up for a moment, hopeful that she hadn't accidently wandered into a pride lands or something. She had done so on one of her missions and oh, the horror. She had to be escorted out by two huge terrifying guards and was promptly told to never return.

"Ah... H-hello." She stuttered in her shock.

'Come on, be more friendly!'

"No. I. I mean, uh, hello." She looked to her feet. As if doing so would somehow cure her of her stage fright.

Minttu was initially alarmed as the second cheetah came tackling the first. But a few seconds later she calmed herself down.

Brothers? They looked very similar were they twins perhaps?

"Why don't you ask them?"

"Be quiet Nousha!" Minttu whispered in a hushed slur under her breath. "Ah... I mean uh- rogue lands? Yes. We ... I." She paused to clear her throat and speak properly. So many times had Minttu accidently said "we" in her sentences as if she was referencing to another who travelled along side her. The lioness continued to remind herself that others often felt she was crazy or dangerous because of her talk of ghosts and the alike. She needed to stop talking as if it were the two or three of them here and instead speak as if it was just her. Or else it could -and likely would- cause problems.

"Ahem. My name is Minttu. I'm trying to find..." 'A temple to the north.' "Right, a temple to the north. Wait really? Ah- I mean yes, that's where I'm heading. North." She laughed nervously at her mix ups and awkward pauses in speaking.