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Mzuka panted heavily as he plopped his behind down on a rock. Releasing the small gem he had been clutching in his mouth this entire time, the Leopon managed to catch it in his paw before it fell into the small pond below him.

He grinned, happy at his success. That air-headed lioness probably didn't even realize how much trinkets Mzuka had stolen of hers. He had a whole bag of them actually. When he found such a beast wandering around, carrying jewel after gem after fabric... He knew he couldn't let such an oppertunity pass itself up.

After all, how often was it that you found a walking gold mine?

The petty thief reached under his rock and picked up a tiny bag of asorted gems. 'One more to add to the collection' he thought as he allowed the green emerald slip into the bag he now held.

In truth he usually didn't steal anything. Nor did he feel such glee from it. He was pretty much a saint when it came to theivery. But, like a cub learning things for the first time, he soon discovered that he could get away with such acts. Not be punished for it. Being raised in a forest that very few rogues visited, thugs and theifs weren't exactly the top priorty of your concern.

So in short Mzuka was completely new to this sort of living. Not exactly sure of what he was getting himself into too, Mzuka simply sat upon his rock, carefully handling his new treasures to ensure he didn't lose any of them.

He nearly had a heart attack when he heard someone call out to him. As if that bubbly lioness had actually managed to follow him or something. But he didn't see anyone around him. And the voice didn't sound even remotely familiar in his mind. Though it did contain hints of belonging to a female, it wasn't that of anyone he knew.

Looking around cluelessly, he finally managed to spot the leopardess resting in a tree not too far from him. He breathed a sigh of relief.

"Fancy rocks." He held up his bag. Deciding it probably wasn't a good idea to gloat about theiving, Mzuka skipped out the part about how he obtained them. Getting up off his rock, he approched the tree of which the leopardess was resting in.

"Mind if I join you up there?"

Mzuka gave a grin as he easily scaled up the tree the leopardess was sitting in. dropping his small pouch back into his paws again, he removed one of the shiny stones he had collected.

The particular one he removed was the same green one from before.

He had no words to say. Merely just sat there with a smirk on his face as the leopardess examined his newly "found" treasures.

He grinned again. "Well, let's just say I found it."

It was nice to know that someone else was taking interest in his stolen goods. As far as he was concerned his mother wouldn't approve of this. She was always about shairing your rations, you don't know if your travelling companion is doing well or not.

Then again, that lioness he had 'found' these on had so many of them. She wasn't shairing her rations, instead she was hoarding them all. Mzuka was doing a good thing then. Teaching that brainless land-kitty a lesson. If you plan on hoarding your rations, at least store them away safely like he had been doing.

"Maybe." Mzuka continued to wear a silly grin on his face, although, very aware that his new aquantance perhapes had intentions to steal his treasures. So he clutched his bag tightly while continuing to engage in conversation. "Land-walkers can be surprisingly ignorant." He said after a brief silence.

"Less then most of my type." He declared proudly. "I grew up in the jungle, you want to survive there you need to walk in the trees." Besides from that he was just a regular land-walker himself. With the expection that he was a hybrid, which made him a natural-born tree climber.

"Fine then... Lions can be ignorant." He said, continuing to hold onto his bag dearly.

Now, the hybrid had his moments where he acted dumb, cocky, even irritating. He usually was always silly at least, that is when actually ever talked to another creature. When he wasn't socializing he was typically silent, hidden from all preying eyes. He had invented his own ability to watch from afar; before making just movements that would please his audience. Or rather, simplified, he wished to attempt to know just what they would like to hear coming from that grinning mouth of his.

Unfortunalty, with this leopardess, up until now Mzuka had been acting on the spur of the moment. He hadn't considered what it was that Kona would be interested in hearing, which was a big mistake on his behalf. This conversation that was going to quickly take a turn for the worse if Mzuka didn't clean up his act. Or... Improvised.

He carefully processed all of which the leopardess had said to him, and attempted to fix the mess he was causing.

"I have been." He said, thinking up a time of which someone truly believed he was a lion. "Lots of times. I only say lions are ill-mannered because they have no respect for my kind." He paused for a moment, grasping the tiny details of the story he had interesting in telling to his companion. "Nor do they respect yours."

"Yeah, I guess most are nice. But it's those few that aren't that seem to cause trouble." He still had the desire to tell the leopardess in front of him his story, only now that wasn't top priorty. He was searching for a way to explain his feeling towards lions in general.

"Like, they rule prides. Make it so that creatures like us have to obey their every word. Even if in that environment the ones we have to obey are nice to us, it was originally the ruler that placed those rules to begin with. So it doesn't take a lot of lions to cause problems for the other non-lion species."

Mzuka paused after words, waiting for a responce. A small part of him wondered why the leopard in front of him felt so insulted by him saying lions where ignorant. Of course, he pushed those thoughts away, saving it for perhapes later tonight for him to ponder over. For now he simply wanted to express his opinon without being slaughtered by anyone.