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Yareha was one frustrated lion. Here he went to all this work to find some potential mates (or dates, at least) for his sister Aysu...and she was already pregnant by some rogue! Talk about ungrateful. Especially since he thought she'd actually like Andama a fair bit. Gidja...well, the white lion just really wanted to see Aysu take that one down a few notches. Just 'cause he was a Lord didn't mean Yareha had any respect for him.

Which reminded him of the bigger situation going on. He liked Mazin, and liked the idea of the slave being the next King. Why should his lowly birth make such a difference?

Yareha was fuming to himself, wandering through the pride lands, looking for one of his brothers to commiserate with.

There! Finally! Koray was sitting on a rock doing...well, it didn't matter what he was doing, it mattered that Yareha had found him before totally losing his temper. The white lion came up and sat next to the black one before finally speaking.

"Can you believe what our sister's done?" he asked at last, voice cracking on the last word. He himself still couldn't believe the utter ruin of his own plans.

Pressing business? Yeah right. But, Yareha didn't want to antagonize any kind of sympathetic ear, so he swalllowed the retort. He might not care for the airs his brother put on, especially not after dealing with Gidja so recently (and wasn't that part of this mess?) but they were still family.

"She went and got herself knocked up by some rogue," the white lion spat. "And after all the trouble I went to trying to introduce her to some nice lions from the pride!" That was what stuck in his craw most, that he'd spent hours trying to find eligible young males that Aysu might find attractive. The news of her pregnancy was like a slap in his face.

"There's nothing we can do about it," Yareha pointed out sourly. "She announced it in front of practically the entire pride." It was nice that Koray agreed with him, it made venting that much easier.

Then the white lion remembered that Koray had been paying absolutely no attention for the past half-moon. "She pretty much had to announce it to lend support to the Queen - since Mitsuki stepped down, there's no Midwife right now." Yareha was fully in favor of finding a new Midwife - fast. He might be severely disappointed in his sister, but that didn't mean he wanted her to die in childbirth.

There was just something about Koray's reaction. Possibly the self-centeredness, possibly how over the top it was, but it really made Yareha want to laugh. However if he did that, he'd lose his sympathetic listener. It was tough, but the white lion managed to strangle his giggles into a quick coughing fit.

"Ahem. Sorry," he apologized once he'd regained his composure. "I don't know how it's going to affect our family, honestly," he replied. "There's just so much going on right now - people disappearing, people stepping down or being demoted - I have absolutely no idea how one thing is going to affect another."

But being able to have this conversation, even given how exasperated Koray could make him, was certainly helping Yareha to feel better. Maybe it was his brother's despair of ever finding a mate in a higher class that the white lion couldn't help finding comical. Whatever the cause, he was in a much better mood now.

Yareha was remembering now why he'd enjoyed picking on Koray so much when they were little. Probably not a good thing to remind his brother of right now though.

"Good luck," he wished the black lion honestly. "I hope it works out." He yawned and shook himself. "I should probably get going, lots to do tomorrow."

He'd certainly done what he'd come to do - complain about Aysu. And it really had made him feel better...even if that was simply because he'd gotten Koray all riled up in his stead.