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Kijibwa was on a mission, for one of the few times in his life, he had something he intended to do and set out to do it. He was looking for his middle daughter, for he and Siku had come to a decision. If he found more than one of his girls, he'd have to ask to speak to Jedi privately because that would not do! The oldest and youngest had too much influence over their sister, and their parents wanted her own opinion.

He was putting his tracking skills to use, since it didn't seem that the girls were anywhere nearby the waterfall today. Lucky for him, there were some footprints and Jedi made some noises while she slept.

"Jeeeeedi," he called out in a hushed voice, trying to find out exactly where she went, "Jeeedi!"

Kiji heard the sounds stop and had to stop for a moment to try to figure out which way it was with means other than his ears. Luckily, it wasn't hard to pick up such a familiar scent and before he could get too lost with that she was calling back to him. He grinned and picked up the pace to get there sooner.

"Jedi!" he called happily when he found her, tripping over a root and falling right over in his delight to have found her. He was obviously excited about something. With a snort and a laugh, he lay on the ground shaking his head, "I found you."

Kiji too had to push thoughts of a world without his girls from his mind, even looking at Jedi now. She was more like him than her mother, but she reminded him so much of her and how she was when they first met. He had to make himself forget that they were now as old as Siku had been when he'd taken her off on an adventure. Hopefully if that happened to any of them, they would at least come say goodbye so he could stop them.

"I'm fine," he grinned, and rearranged himself to lay more comfortably on the ground, "I came to talk to you about something important!" His chest puffed out importantly.

"Nonono, of course not," he looked from side to side shiftily, "Your mother did, though." Kiji pretended to frown, but was never a good actor and just ended up laughing at himself.

"Nah, it was all my idea," he admitted with a sigh, "I was talking to your mother about something and we wanted to get all of your opinions, but we need yours first." Kiji said it that way to make her feel extra important, because she certainly was and with sisters like hers it might not happen as often as one would hope.

Kiji chuckled happily at Jedi's enthusiasm at their chat. All the better for such an important decision she had to make! He inhaled deeply, trying to build up a little more excitement for what was to come.

"Well, I grew up in this jungle," he started with a short story, "I wasn't born here, but this is where I ended up and where I spent most of my cubhood. I was a bit older than you when I left, and I found where your mother comes from. She didn't grow up in the Jungle, at least not wholly.."

"That's what I came to talk about," Kiji explained proudly, pleased she seemed to get an idea of where this was going. He inched closer to his daughter before continuing, "Your mother comes from the Pridelands, it's across the desert and it's really different from the Jungle. We were thinking about going back there for a little while, what do you think?"

Kiji started at her panic and bluntness when asking what the lions were like in the Pridelands, and had to resist the urge to laugh. It wasn't good that his little girl was worried about others being so smart, but he did find it a bit funny.

"I don't think so," he said, smiling fondly at her, "I didn't meet a whole lot of lions there, and while none of them were stupid, they were not geniuses or anything. Not that Janja and Ekevu are geniuses, but they could well be eventually at the rate they're going." He had to sigh and give a slight eye-roll at that. He'd never have imagined children like the ones he got, but he loved them all and felt very lucky.