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Very few things could keep the lions of the Kizingo'zaa from roaming the great wide expanse of beach they called home. Today, there was a very loud exception. Tukuta whipped his head around as another flash of light lit the cloudy sky, but the lightning had come and gone before he'd gotten a good look at it. Lightning's slower brother, Thunder, followed soon after, making the juvenile lion wince from his viewing spot at the mouth of the den.

"Thunder always sounds so angry." he commented, edging a little further towards the dark line that marked where the torrential rain hit the ground. "Do you think Lightning is teasing Thunder?" he asked.

When there was no reply, Tukuta realized no one was listening to him. That wouldn't do! The musings of a young genius should always have a witness. With a mind to remedy the situation, he spied Nila further back in the den, and made a bee-line for his sister.

"Nila!" he said, flopping unceremoniously across her back. There! A captive audience. "Nila, do you think that Lightning is teasing Thunder? I think they're playing hide-and-seek, and Lightning keeps teasing Thunder by darting in and out of his hiding spots."

"The better to keep sisters from escaping." Tukuta piped serenely to Nilas' comment about his weight. He gave her suggestion some thought. His brow scrunched together while he distractedly bit at one of Nilas' white ears. "But Lightning never actually roars anything, Nila. He just goes 'FLASH!', and he's gone. No sound."

Giving the matter some serious thought, he rolled off his sister and flopped down beside her. Frowning up at her thoughtfully, he tilted his head.

"Maybe it's a combination of the two games?" he suggested, before his ears perked up, and an interested smile lit his face. "Hey! What were you lookin' at earlier?"

The non sequitur was par for the course with Tukuta. He always seemed to have a queue of thoughts built up. They all waited patiently, more or less, but would eventually jump out of his mouth with no order or logic connecting them.

Tukuta scrunched his muzzle up as he considered the thought that Lightning might be a girl. "Well, maybe? Lightning doesn't hold still long enough for me to get a good look." he admitted, shooting a vaguely annoyed glance towards the cave mouth.

"Pass the time..." he repeated, seeming to take the lie at face value. He perked up at an idea. "Hey! How about we play Lightning and Thunder?"

He rolled to his feet and walked to and fro in front of Nila, thinking aloud. "It'd be like Hide and Seek, and Tag, and Leo Lion! 'Lightning' has to hide, but you got to count to... 10, and then dash to a new spot. If 'Thunder' sees 'Lightning', he... or she roars, and tries to catch Lightning. If Lightning is caught they switch places! Whaddayathink?"

He finished, spinning to face Nila with an excited smile. "Want to play?"