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Rani wasn't too sure about the new management of the pride, she was a traditionalist herself and preferred the old rulers. But even they had showed her the back side of the paw by moving on with the cub heist she had trained for while she was pregnant. Now that her cubs were fully grown, they rarely needed her assistance or guidance and with no lifemate it left the mother empty and lonely. A depression had followed, but it ended Swiftly when her daughter helped her combine her passions of helping other lions to become better, physical training and her ranking.

The result was her purpose for being on the beach in the first place. Rani'Kob was on a mission and walked with determination as opposed to her usual nearly silent glide across the surface. Up until the God of Peace came to the Kizi lands, the black pelted lioness had spent her life as a wall flower and instead of having friends of her own, observed and memorized her pridemates. It wasn't a matter of observing rituals or a lack of social graces, just her shyness and desire for attachment at a young age. It came in handy when she was looking for a specific quality in lions now that she was more bold, free from her malicious muse.

The thief she had zeroed in on now was one she had seen in passing several times, but hadn't had any reason to catch him in conversation. This male was the previous Queen's brother and she therefore valued him a little above the rest of the lions that had caught her eye over the years. As she approached him now, she smiled and nodded her head respectfully. It was an acknowledgement she gave to every gypsy, the pride was important to her and therefore all of it's inhabitants.

"Greetings. I'm Rani'Kob, I hope I'm not interupting anything." A few of the beads of water glistening in the sun caught her eye, she always was a sucker for something shiny.

It was reassuring to see the male's gears were turning, at least he wasn't one of those brainless crazies. In fact he was two crazies together, but that wasn't information Rani was privy to. This was the first thief she was going to approach on her proposition, thankfully it was remote enough of a location for their conversation not to be over heard.

Rani could either shy up and beat around the bush, or just jump straight into the deep end with all four paws.

"It's actually what I hope to do for you." Yeah, that made a good starter. "I'm putting together a band of thieves of sorts." Rani paused to see if she had peaked the attention of the stranger.

The lionesses last project she came up with, the cub heist, had left her jaded against getting approval by the individual pride members as well as the hierarchy that stood representing it. Now she was trying to move in a new direction and let those old scars heal.

A relieved smile spread across Rani's face when the male asked a question, it meant to her that anything was now possible.

"It would mostly be for training purposes, we have so much potential talent in the pride with the new blood growing and bringing in their own mates but no system of sculpting them. We're also blessed with gifted lions, such as ourselves, that could share our information and with eager students." There was more to it, but she stopped there and waited for Dhoru.

That plan was going to be thrown back into her face for decades, she could feel it. But, this time her non-involvement played to her advantage. Although it made her uneasy on the inside, she had become the master of portraying controlled emotions and simply laughed and flicked her orange mane tuft out of her eyes.

"No cubs. Just trinkets, tokens or souvenirs, not from our allies." As she was reassuring the lion with the most friendly smile she had in her arsenal she was doubting her portrayal. Did she seem like a malicious evil lioness? The cub napping was only a pursuit to serve a purpose in hopes to bring honor to her pride.

"My plan is to help others reach their goals and realize their full potential, it brings joy to my heart. I assure you, your concern is misplaced. However, I would like to keep the band under the radar like a secret club, you see? I just don't want it full of glory hounds." Mainly she meant the young studs adorned in trinkets only in the band to pick up females.

"All of the training would be off pride borders."

Accomplishment exhumed from her chest. This may actually work! So far things were going according to plan.

"Only lions you can trust to keep a secret. I'll have more details for identification, meetings and a method of communication on our first meeting. Thieves only."

Rani only wanted to give away as much information as she needed to at this point. That and she hadn't really figured out all of the details quite yet. But she would rather look omnipotent.

"I'll give you directions and show you the signal that I'll hang in a tree. The next day the meeting will be at my off-sight training camp. It's where I've been training for many years." Too many than she'd care to admit to for now.

"I want to wait until we have two recruits each before we set up a meeting date however." This was for protection mostly, but she also wanted to see what Dhoru was actually capable of as a recruiter.

"Come to my cave when you have two, I must go now." Rani wasn't really one for a smooth exit transition, as a thief she had the urge to just run off into the night.