Zia was finding wandering along the clan territory borders was a rather interesting pass-time. You never knew who you might meet! She was having fun following a rather familiar piece of the border now...She'd crossed it once before, and had always come back here at one point or another. Because it was the clan border that met with the first place she'd been in. The Bird clan. She was Wolf clan now, but when Tawa'di had first brought she and her sister into the pride, they'd resided in his clan until the time came to find their true place.
And she'd realized she hadn't visited the border shared with the Bird clan since the leader's death. So she'd gotten off her duff and trotted over, just to see if anyone else was there. She wasn't sure IF anyone would be there but...well, it never hurt to just look. At the least, she would get some exercise and see a familiar piece of land again.
Fyja had been getting fat. Not FAT fat, but...soft. Roaming the wide world in his youth had made him wiriy and tough, but now...this pride life, only sometimes hunting for himself, always with food to be had, plenty of resting and not having to keep moving to be safe (or to go looking for anything)...Suffice to say, he'd started to feel a bit lazy. Now Fyja wasn't of a mind to be a big hulking beast of a lion, but it was to his liking to stay fit. After all, he did help hunt, and he would have hated being a burden on the others. To that end, he'd decided to spend the day running the borders of the clans. It was both exercise and an excuse to see some less familiar faces, and check out the lands of those he thought of as distant relatives of sorts.
By the time Fyja was loping down the strip of land between Wolf and Bird he was starting to feel ready to rest. If he knew right, there'd be a small stream somewhere ahead. It fed down into the Bird clan's area to make one of the small pools he'd often visited. It'd be a perfect place to rest. Of course, spotting someone in between himself and his destination brought him to a stop a bit sooner. She looked something like familiar, but he couldn't be sure...she certainly wasn't from his clan though.
He paused briefly to catch his breath and bowed to the lady. "...Hello. I do not think we have met." He deadpanned, a bit breathily from his run though not with any real strain.
Zia perked up when she saw she wasn't alone. A new friend, perhaps! She always liked making friends. She smiled and bowed back. "It's quite possible. These are large lands. My name is Zi'athari. I live among the Wolf clan with my sister." He had such an odd marking on his nose. Like an upside-down tree. Perhaps he was one of the Bird clan members she had not met when she lived among them. "And who do I have the pleasure of meeting today?" There was a reason for her meeting him. There was always a reason for her meeting anyone. It was how life worked, after all.
Fyja was quite pleased when she bowed back. He was one for formality now and then, and appreciated the lady for it. "Indeed. I am Uidan Fyja, of the Bird clan. All those of the Bird I think of as my family, though my only relative is among another clan. The Earth clan." Goodness he was chatty today. His sides fluttered a bit as he sighed out hte last of his exertion from running. On a whim, he tilted his head towards the female. "I mean to take a drink at the stream, that way," He motioned one direction with a paw. "Would you like to join me, perhaps?"
