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Oh, she'd known about the cubs; she'd not seen them, really, since the fateful day of the birth, where being the oldest of the lionesses, she'd helped out. But she'd known they were there; growing, learning and... apparently, being a nuisance, too. The dark lioness chuckled mildly, "Blunt, aren't you?" she drawled at the cub, then neared the duo, bumping the top of her head rather lovingly against the Queen's. True, there was nothing do indicate... anything between the two females, but Sukari knew a bond when she felt it, albeit as strange as it was, she dared not poke it, nor question it.

It was there, and that was that.

She was about to speak up when she suddenly felt a pressure against her side; turning revealed what looked like a small cub; Bazi had somehow or other.... snuck up on her and was peeking from behind her form towards Nuka, brown eyes blazing under her skull with molten curiosity, "Where are you manners, Bazi?" came the general's drawling voice to which the cub instantly looked up and smiled, though the twitch of her maw was eerie.

"Good morning."


"Bazi." Sara smiled slightly at her little sister. Oh yes, Sara had favorites and they were well known... though she hadn't seen much of the masked cub in the moons since her own brood had been born. That would have to change, she decided, and gestured for the older cub to come forward. "Come here. Meet your nephew."

Nuka snorted. The new faces were weird, he thought, and Sukari's delicacy strange compared to the thick boned bother he loved. Stranger yet that this female shared a name with his father--but though Nuka loved his father, he had about as much respect for the giant purple male as his mother seemed to. That was, there was no respect there, even from a small cub.

Bazi, however, was a different experience all together. Nuka's eyebrows raised at the skull she had settled over her own. He didn't see much of his mother in her sister, but he knew perfectly well the relation between he and this cub--Sarafina had all drilled her brood on the names and rank of everyone in the pride. Nuka's head ducked slightly, sinking down against his shoulders as he looked up at the females. "mornin'" He bit off, still sulking from being hit. "Where'd you get that funny looking skull?"

The cub in question smiled slightly as she was addressed by name; all what she did though, was wag her tail once, swishing it over the arid terrain. At least, till she was called forward; despite being older than Nuka himself, she was just barely bigger, which might've been slightly preoccupying had it not been obvious she'd been born the runt. This didn't quite seem to deteriorate the way the small cub presented herself, with an air of superiority towards any of those below her (read: anyone not in her pride).

Sukari was in no way dumb; she'd noticed the snort from the boy, but it did not bother her. Not now. Oh... all what she'd need was a couple of training lessons with the cubs. She'd teach them the ways of fighting the outside world held; as a trained, experienced fighter, whom had passed from mistweaver territory, through firekin and others, Sukari held no doubt that given the chance, she'd be able to put anyone.... at all, in his or her place. For now, she allowed the cubs to get acquainted, "She followed me; probably curious. Most the others don't really tag with her. Bazi has different... interests, apparently."

The small cub grinned under the skull, her eyes narrowing, "It was... a present," she told him, "From the darkness," of course, no one LISTENED to her when she said this. No one ever really believed her, even if it WAS the truth. Perhaps, if one day someone'd listen, she'd tell them the story. Instead now, she padded nearer, and did something she hadn't in a very long time; she pushed her skull off her face to allow herself to be seen, her nose wiggling as she took in Nuka's scent.

The male backed away at first, until his mother's paw forced him to stop. He'd come too close to the edge and it was a long fall down. Nuka glanced over his shoulder, then at the pale cub that was advancing on him. He didn't know what he thought would be under that skull, but it certainly wasn't the normal looking face that he was presented with. ... Normal for a cub, anyway. Seeing that, he suddenly felt ashamed of having backed off and gave a little growl. Nuka pressed his nose against Bazi's and pushed her back a little, his nose twitching against hers as he did.

Sarafina allowed this to go on. Rather than pa y more than idle-seeming attention to either cub, she turned her gaze upon the older female who accompanied them. "I noticed." Was all she said with a shrug. Bazi's presence was fine with her--if she hadn't been ready to show the cubs off she wouldn't have brought them out of the den. "Well, the others will have to deal with her.. they're all family are they not? I think its about time Nuka and Kovu joined their family, i've babied them for far too long already." It'd only been a few weeks, no more than two in actuality.