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After an almost fatal attack by a rouge leopon, the third touge attack that monsoon Inzari finally decided to include more males to the pride, but how.
He had never felt comfortable with the thought of buying a cub, even though he came to the pride in a very similar way but his story was different, his mother always thought that his sire would return and introduce him to his born pride, but that never happeed.
Almost one moon had come and gone while he was thinking of a solution when Lady Tmai, whom he respected as she was one of his mothers defenders once the news of her pregnancy broke out to the pride and King Siberi intended to banish her, came to him with one solution.
Lady Tmai, or The Slate Owl as she was nicknamed, was a planner by definition as he tended to think that she was always on thought ahead of her.
"Sir, our majesty Lena had to spend half a moon turn ensuring that He Who Guards The Tree didnt ascend with the ancestors, his duties are with the spirits, not with the protection of the border" she quieted as she didnt want to overstep with her comments "his wounds have prevented him from reading the intentions of the spirits and we need that guidance" she was more nervous now that when she had trotted to his encounter, she was holding information, or an advice, that he knew but what he didnt know was why was she so skittish, fearful even.
"Go on Tmai" He assured his hunter "I know you have a plan in mind and you know how I think of them, its always good to have more input, after all your Queen is quite tired of hearing me mumble about plans and ideas" he said, laying on the ground as he felt this was going to be the beggining of a quite lengthy discussion of pride dinamics and alliances that could bring forth a new member to the pride that would spend his days patrolling.
After a couple of seconds the older lioness followed the king and sat down but didnt lift her gaze from the ground "You know that I had two litters with other pride leaders right?" The huntress was still talking while staring at a small pebble next to her paw "Yes, I do know, Siberi, may he rest, made you mate them in order to strengthen the bonds with them right?" He didnt know much more about this as it had happened at the same time he came to the pride, as well as it wasnt very commented in the pride as Tmai had to leave behind her cubs.
"Well" the mature lioness gathered air in her lungs until she started speaking again "One of my cubs, Haurre, was born big and strong, he was a quiet cub but with strong lungs, I hadnt heard from him until he became an adult and his half-brother allowed him to come and visit me" she lifted her eyes from the pebble, and silently asked to continue her speech "He is strong, gentle and just wants to come spend more time with me" Her paws shot to his to plead with him "He is no threat to your reign and he has blood from the pride so he isnt a complete stranger, he is even good at handling cubs!"
Inzari, used to see Tmai as the quiet ever observing lioness was to say the least, surprised to the elder lioness's reaction. Without removing her paws from his he calmly inquired her "So you are suggesting that Haurre could join the pride and take the role of patrolling, right?"
---TBC---
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