Things had changed. They had changed greatly. Mai...couldn't search for the sea anymore. Not after the encounter with the sweet lioness with the pale violet eyes. 'What you were searching for before...it's not the same. It is no longer what you need or want, Maisha.' He had been startled. She'd simply walked over to him, then walked off, leaving one last sentence with him. 'Seek the sea no more.' She'd been a seer, he just knew it. He'd encountered enough in his life. It was a seer that had started him on the journey, and now...it was a seer that had turned it in a new direction.
Where did he go now? He supposed he could continue traveling with Epyon's group for a time. They were a kind lot. Mostly. Hera was more than a little crazy, and he had a very bad feeling he knew who her mother was. But...what would he do after they returned to their pride? He knew he needed to go back to the Mwako for a short time, to take one of the cubs growing in Epyon's belly to his Uncle Hekima. But after that...he was uncertain. The leopon sighed and sat up, shaking grass from his fur, then shifting to brush more grass from his belly fur.
He supposed he would figure it out later. After all...it was about time he made his own path.
