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Mvua wandered aimlessly through the grasslands, not really having any particular destination in mind. True, as a hunter he was supposed to be assisting in the hunt, but considering the only clouds in the area were the patches of white on his grey fur, he suspected he wasn't going to have much luck today. Of course, the hot sun on his back was far more preferable to weather resembling his stormy appearance. No rain, please and thank you very much. If there was rain, the job to hunt would invariably fall to him, and as much as he enjoyed helping out his pride in any way he could, Mvua hated drying out his mane afterwards.

Yes, this sunny weather truly was the cue to a perfect day. Now, if only there was something more entertaining than miles of grassland. The herds in the distance, perhaps? Yes, that sounded like a good thing to investigate. The herds had a talent for finding nice watering holes to relax next to. If he was lucky, perhaps Mvua would find an unoccupied rock to sun himself on...

It was a good thing none of his family members could see how lazy Mvua truly wanted to be today.

Well then, that was odd. Mvua certainly wasn't expecting to be dodging terrified warthogs that were running in his direction. Clearly someone had beaten him to the good resting spot. Well, at least the herds hadn't noticed what the warthogs did. Yet. Maybe he'd better ditch laziness for precaution, just for the moment.

Squinting for a moment, Mvua thought he saw /something/ moving through the grasses. He couldn't tell what that something was, but he suspected that something was what had frightened the warthogs. As long as that something was moving towards him and not the herds, he was perfectly fine with this. Dodging warthogs was easy, dodging a herd of wildebeest...not so much.

Mvua debated saying something, a greeting of some kind to acknowledge his presence. Of course, if it was one of the lions of his pride, he'd probably be recruited into the hunting expedition he was avoiding today. Also, whoever it was seemed pretty intent. Mvua decided on sitting down and simply watching the events before him until he knew more about the situation.

Huh. There was another warthog running toward him. That was interesting. Mvua silently prepared for...

Oops, whoever it was running from was shouting now, and warthog the third was losing its mind while running in a totally different direction from where Mvua was sitting. Oh well, no point in that anyway; too much tusk, not enough meat. At least he could tell the reason for the fleeing prey beasts now; it was definitely his fellow lion. Or lioness, from the sound of it.

Well, lazy as he wanted to be, his mother hadn't raised him to be someone who wouldn't aid his fellow pride member. "Want some help?" he called out. Then, upon some thought, "Or perhaps someone to commiserate with?"

Mvua smiled in in acknowledgement of the new and, thankfully, friendly face. It was certainly decent of her to move out of the grass so that he could see her more clearly.

"To be honest, I was trying to find a quiet spot to be lazy," Mvua laughed heartily. "It's quite an embarassing thing to admit when I see you are working so hard. I just figured, with the day being so bright and nice outside, my stormy coat is only going to hurt the pride if I try to do anything. It's a good thing no one's really relying on me," Anymore, he thought privately, remembering his mother's final illness and how he had taken care of her like she had taken care of him.

"My name's Mvua," he said, realizing suddenly he hadn't even introduced himself. How rude of him.

Mvua broke out into a grin. "A pleasure to meet you as well, Kakra. I was wandering this direction because, if memory serves, there's a nice rocky outcropping that way," he indicated with a toss of his mane.

"I don't mind if you join me," he added. "And, since we've established that everything will run from us in the opposite direction anyway, we should have the nicest, sunniest spots still available to us when we arrive. There's that advantage, at least."