<3 [Coco] Mira <3

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~THE WIDOW~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Mira is not in love with the king. She wants to make this perfectly clear, Mira is not in love with the king because she is still in mourning for the king she left behind. Who was he, you may ask, what did he look like? She cannot tell you. She does not remember him, but she remembers that she loved him. She remembers that she gave him daughters, though she doesn't know where their daughter may be now. She could not tell you how she came to this pride or how she lost her former one, but she remembers she was in love with another king and that she had two little girls. Her grief when she speaks of them is muted, flat. But it is there. It makes her weak of body. She is not as strong as she should be. She will not be strong again until she finds it in herself to love again.

Hunting gives her life now. She throws herself into it. She will come home with her dim coat grimy and dirty but satisfied as long as she is dragging a fat gazelle or tasty goat. She has no patience for neither Husky's helpful nudgings nor Felicia's crooked schemes. She is blunt with her pride-mates in her lingering sorrow. It does not earn her many friends but the pride is reluctant to chase off the grieving widow, for she always brings something home to feed them and feed the hole in her heart.