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She all-out grinned as Akida promised to come back. It still seemed quite weird to her that their parents were really egging them on to spend time together, but if she got a friend out of it, it couldn't be a bad thing. Right? "That'll be so cool! I don't have any friends here; no one wants to hang out with me, so it'll be really nice to have a friend to play with!" Excitedly, she lightly bumped her shoulder with his.

She looked where Akida pointed, squinting in the distance, trying to see the rock as clearly as possible. "You live on that really big rock? But... don't you get all... afraid of heights up there, living on the top? Aren't you scared you might fall?" She knew she definitely would be scared of doing that. After getting stuck in a tree when she was much younger (chasing bugs again, tsk tsk), she wasn't so fond of high places and couldn't imagine ever wanting to climb that rock.

Her crimson eyes went wide, and she blinked at Akida owlishly, staring at him in complete and utter disbelief. "They would try to push you off? But... but... they're family! Why would they do that to you? It's not right!" The idea was completely foreign to her; family was a close-knit thing, in her eyes. There was nothing nasty and mean about it, other than the odd childish name-calling and shoving and the like.

She smiled, again leaning over to nudge his shoulder with hers. "Yeah! And such a nice friend, too."

The young cub's jaw slackened and dropped at the mention of just how many siblings Akida had. "Eight?" she whispered, more to herself than him in truth. She couldn't imagine having that many to have to deal with. She struggled just putting up with her only sister, Froth. Her brother was easy to get along with, so much so that she barely noticed him around. But Froth was more than a pawful, and they were constantly arguing about anything and everything. Sibling rivalry to the extreme, in her opinion, though, compared to others, their situation really wasn't that bad. Still, she wasn't mature enough to think that way just yet.

She pushed the shocked look from her face and instead placed it with a wide grin that stretched from ear to ear, nodding her head in complete agreement. "I'm glad I met you, too. I like you a lot already, Akida. I hope we see each other again soon!"

She followed him down to ground level, shaking out her pale fur. "You better keep that promise, you hear? Otherwise we really won't be friends any more." She pondered a minute, following his eyes to the distant silhouette of Pride Rock. "And who knows... maybe one day I'll come and see where you live instead."