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Mawu was torn between what to do with herself. That male had given her a great night but now the consequences were large. Her mother had confirmed it with her and now it was true, she was pregnant. With his cubs. She was so upset and ashamed and frightened, cubs... dark ones. Like her. She had gone away from her friends and family and was not in solitude. She was to be the laughing stock of the Pride. Black and with no male to be the father to her cubs. There would be no father to her children. That was horrible in her eyes. Her mother had a male consort and was a proper lioness. Though they had a gloom over them. Their last litter of cubs had a strange amount of deserters. A bad sign. Mawu now had to uphold her family's honor. She had been spending more and more time alone now. She sat at the borders often. Staring off into the distance.

He'd come back to these lands and bright colored lions and weak males that submitted to the wills of females. He wanted to make sure there were no cubs. He hadn't gotten any of the other females pregnant, but he felt something different this time. He thought of himself as infertile. "Mawu?" He whispered, sneaking around the boarders. He spotted a figure up ahead of him, and there was a bright marking around a leg. It had to be her. He picked up his pace, a grin in place and then came up to her. It was indeed Mawu. "Hey, Mawu..."

She lifted her head, her lilac eyes showing her grief and shame. Her eyes took a moment to adjust to the light, but when his form came into view, she was stunned. Him, Vetsip. She dropped down onto her stomach, hiding her wide girth. She cleared her throat. "V-v-vestip?" She asked aloud, her eyes blinking. She thought he'd never dare come back. After all that happened.

Blinking at the girth of her, he let his brows furrow and then cleared his throat a bit, looking to the side. She'd gotten so big.... Was he to be a father? Surly she was just fat. "Mawu.... U-uh.... you look.... Big." The word slipped before he could filter it. Rolling his eyes at the smoothness of that line, he sat down in front of her, tail curling about his front paws. "I-I mean.... ...It's bee a little while, hasn't it?"

She sat and looked very uncomfortable. Everything that had happened between them was now coming to a stand still and it was horrible. And she was afraid and alone. She as so afraid. She looked at him and when the words left his mouth, she scowled. "Of course I'm bigger! What did you expect!?" She asked, looking down right upset and flustered. This was the end of her life for sure. She was going to be stuck with little bkacl cubs and barely any Toh for her next life.

Vestip blinked and swallowed thickly. So she was pregnant. "..U-uhm... Those... are mine?" he asked, moving to the side of her belly and gave a little nudge to see if it really was babies. "I didn't..." He pulled back and sighed softly. What to do? He couldn't leave her like this, could he? Even his instinct said no. She wouldn't be taken very good care of if he didn't do something. But what COULD he do? "I didn't.... think I was.. fertile.."

She gave a shy jolt when he prodded her large belly. She had to guess that there would be many cubs by the way her belly bulged and the cubs kicked her so wildly. "Yes... who else would have done this to me? I'd never be-" She paused... and then sighed. "I would have not been an acceptable female really... for breeding." She said softly. She sat up and her large belly was now showing fully. "well... you are... I have never been so fat in my life... and my mother.. my mother is absolutely... excited."

He couldn't help but smile at that thought. Her mother being so excited about a pregnancy. Sighing softly, Vestip watched her stomach and bit down on his lip. So he could have little hims running around if he wanted too. Tail flicking this way and that, he thougt for a moment. "...I can't leave you alone... Since there'd be no male in their life...."

She lifted her chin. "My pride does not run that way... a male nanny would be anointed to me to help raise my cubs the way they should be." She said, her nose wrinkling. "Our cubs are well protected and cared for." She said softly, putting a paw on her stomach and sighing.


"....Like I'd leave it to a 'nanny' to raise my litter," he snorted out, moving to put his own paw on her belly, carefully, wanting to feel them. One kicked his paw and then he gave a smile at that, though a lopsided one. "....I want... to take care of them. So far they're my only cubs..." Guilt. That was what was read in his voice.

She looked down at his gloved paw and a small smile crept onto her face... though she coughed and took off her paw. "Theres tons of them in there... they kick me constantly.." She said, looking down at her black belly with flourish. "Well... they'd be taken care of just fine... you wouldn't have to worry about that." She said. She lifted her head and her purple eyes gazed at him. "But you can't take care of them if you aren't apart of the pride... that's the way things work-and I don't think you'd like being a Parastar!" She said, looking a bit sad. She could hear the guilt in his voice and it made her feel a bit guilty too. "You don't have to-"

"Then I'll join.... I want to see what it's all about.. See what I missed growing up. I didn't have siblings or parents that I remember.." he said softly, taking his paw off as well and then moved to nuzzle the other's stomach and then sighed softly, smiling. ".....I'll.... try to behave."

She smiled though she was skeptical. "It is hard to be a parastar if you weren't raised as one. You must respect all females and listen to them and do as they say... since you will be beside me with the cubs-it will be important you maintain a proper personality." She said softly. "My father can help you out if you wish. He is the proper male... always has been." She smiled. "You won't have to stay by me forever... unless it is wished... otherwise other females can chose to have you sire their cubs if desired..."

He arched a brow at that and smirked. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if he got to be with multiple females. "Then I'll talk to your dad. I want to know.... Maybe it'll be a good thing for me, learning how to be... I dunno..." He wanted to say a wimp, but he knew the males couldn't be big push overs. "Yeah.... I want to see the cubs."

She lifted her head. "Really? You do..." She smiled. Her own gloved paw fell to her belly and she cooed. "I cant wait really... I'm just scared I guess... but I don't... I don't know." She wriggled her tail a bit. "I'm nervous... I never wanted to be a mother-because I know the odds are that I will give birth to those with bad toh."

"Bad what now? Who care? I mean... If you have children, be happy about it. Most mothers are. What's so bad about having cubs?" He asked, arching a brow a little. He truly didn't understand. "Maybe I should ask a male or something about.... how to ...be a par..whatever you said."

"Parastar" She said simply. "Well, those with colors like mine-in their past life must have done something not so honorable and to be reborn into the next world dark. My mother is of high ranking, orange... she has high toh. I am black... I must have done something not so great at one point," She said softly and almost sadly. "Parastar are a different group entirely. They are kept with other parastar... we are grouped by rank and sex... but if you are to be by my side you will be allowed into the female area... until the cubs are old enough.. then you will take the boys to the parastar area..."

Vestip just nodded like he knew what she was talking about. Did Karma mean Toh? Maybe. It made sense to him. Sitting down closer to her, Vestip nodded a bit more and sighed. "You seem like a good lioness to me. Maybe it's a challenge. Think of it that way. If you do good with this life, you'll come back as heir to the throne. The way I see it? Make yourself the best you can no matter your rank. I made myself the best I could." He waggled his brows with a grin before looking to her stomach again. "I'll.... figure it out."

Ah, so it was a meet the family kind of thing here. Just what Vestip wanted to hear. He nodded a little and then looked to the side. He prayed he could just one day walk away from the pride. It didn't seem like the type to take to his womanizing ways. Yet at the same time, Vestip wanted to see what the cubs had to offer. See what they'd look like, see how they'd fit into this really weird community. They'd probably get it before he did.

"So... Am I in now? I mean... Do I have ... to talk to anyone besides your dad? Like a King maybe?" The male didn't know what he was doing here.

Vestip couldn't help but blink. A pride run by females? How odd. Whatever, it didn't seem to be anything he could do about it. "....I could... be apart of their lives, I guess. I mean.. I'm curious... to see what I made." He couldn't put it any other way. He had no tact in this situation because he'd never been here before. Still, he didn't see why she was considered a low rank. From what he knew of Mawu she was kind, strong and very capable of anything.

"....Let's.... go in for the night, then. ...Get me settled.."