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Yareha yawned and squinted against the setting sun. Given the choice, he'd much prefer to sleep in until it was at least mostly dark, but he couln't afford to do that today. Today he fully intended to begin his hunt for a male to catch Aysu's interest.

Not that he actually expected to succeed. But his success wasn't what the lion was hoping for, not at all...

The thought trailed off, forgotten, as the white lion spotted a potential suitor. He didn't know the other lion well, but he didn't look too old. Yareha trotted up to the blue-maned male.

"Looks like it's going to be a lovely night," he commented idly. "I don't suppose you have a pretty lioness to spend it with?" Oh yeah, Yareha was being reeeeeeeal subtle. But, hey. He needed to know that bit right away...right?

Yareha grinned at the other lion. Gape-mouthed wasn't a reaction he usually got, but hey, it was a good one, right? At the very least he'd have to remember the look on the other male's face for blackmail in the future. Good blackmail, not anything that'd really hurt anyone. The white lion just wasn't that kind of guy.

"A handsome guy like you would spend a night like this helping his grandparents? You really are something special," the Hunter continued cheerfully. That sounded fairly promising already! Hopefully the idea of the other helping was his own, not his grandparents. Yareha didn't mind slaves at all and knew full well they were people too, but he was aware that some people liked to take advantage of their unblessed status.

"You know, there's lots of lionesses in this pride who'd love a guy that cares for his family so much," Yareha pointed out with a wink. Yeah, Mister Subtle had officially left the building. And this was with the white lion actually trying to not drop the whole idea at once on the other lion.

Yareha laughed out loud as the other male neatly turned his questioning around. "I can't take the time to find a lioness for myself yet, not until I find a nice fellow for my sister, Aysu!" It was a daydream that he entertained every now and then, but really, he just didn't see taking the time to devote himself to a lioness at this point in his life. He did want to, however. Eventually.

"Perhaps you should be looking," Yareha suggested. "You know that the good ones don't stay single forever, and if you put it off too long, there'll be no one left." Talk about the pot calling the kettle black, but the white lion wasn't particularly skilled at taking his own advice.

"Oh!" he exclaimed as Andama introduced himself. It had completely escaped his mind that it was normal for a person to give their name before dropping a proposition of some sort in front of another. "Sorry about that, my name's Yareha Afaer, but please, just call me Yareha," he answered, smiling.

Um, not the most enthusiastic reaction he'd ever gotten. But Andama seemed like a nice guy, so he'd let it slide. Maybe the other male just needed time to get warmed up to a person.

Blue eyes shifted from side to side as the yellow and purple lion asked if Aysu knew. "Not...yet," Yareha replied at last. "I'm, um, trying to surprise her." Yeah, that was it. And if Andama took that at face value, the white lion had some great property to sell him at the bottom of the ocean!

He had to snort though at the other lion's class-based worries. "Firstly, we're low class ourselves, so it's not extreme like your grandparents," he explained. Besides, to Yareha, what was the point in worrying about ranks? He wasn't a slave, but in the eyes of certain high ranking lions, he wasn't much better than one either. "Secondly," he continued, "it's our ranks that change, not our mates." Which actually made it perfectly logical for Andama to be looking at a lioness of higher rank than he - if you allowed class-based prejudice to influence your thinking.

"Lastly, what does any of it matter if you and the girl truly love each other?" That was what Yareha wanted when he did find a mate - someone who loved him regardless of what rank or class or anything else like that. Shouldn't everyone else want the same?

"Er...yeah. I mean, she drives me crazy but I love her," Yareha admitted, momentarily stunned by the fact that he actually had said that out loud. Andama seemed to have loosened his tongue more than he preferred.

The white lion chose to take it as a compliment when the other lion compared him to Nerit. After all, Nerit had had the wisdom to see past the veils of rank and go with what her heart said. "I suppose it doesn't hurt," he acknowledged at last.

Yareha gratefully grabbed onto the change of subject. "Aysu's really outgoing. She talks a lot, but she also talks to a lot of people and likes to know everything that's going on in the pride," he explained. "She can get really nosy if you're not prepared to keep her out of your private life, but she means well." He considered the other male's request. "I suppose I could do that...kind of a friend of a sibling thing?"

Yareha had the grace to flush as Andama pointed out that he, like Aysu, could talk a lot. He didn't always, but sometimes a switch inside got flipped and the words came pouring out. He hoped he hadn't been too obnoxious and was relieved by the other male's next words.

"I'm sure she'd be thrilled to hear someone else's observations," the white lion declared with a smile. "I'd be happy to set something up for you two!" He paused, then added "I hope you don't mind if I'm not there when you both meet, I really don't want her to know I'm doing this." Mostly because he had a feeling she'd be severely annoyed (and amused) if it worked out, and ready to flay him alive if it didn't.

"How does two nights from now sound, at the two rocks near the watering hole?" he continued, racking his brain for a way to convince Aysu to go.

"Wonderful!" Yareha was absolutely THRILLED with how his plan was working out. And it helped that Andama was a genuinely nice guy that he wouldn't object to seeing his sister - any of his sisters! - with.

"Then I'll see to it that Aysu shows up on time," he assured the other male. "Thank you very much! I owe you one, and don't be afraid to cash in!" He was afraid that as a slave, the blue-maned lion would be too afraid. Hopefully not though. Maybe, just maybe, they could end up as friends after all of this was said and done...