๐ฟChapter 3. Wings of sunrises ๐ฟ
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You wake up and feel well-rested. It's still dark outside, but you know you can't sleep anymore, so you choose to leave the cave. You carefully get to your paws quietly to not wake up the sleeping Himmel beside you or any other sleeping lions in the cave. You're thirsty; therefore, you go and take a drink from the pond. The sun would rise soon. You want to capture a good glimpse of the landscape you begin to climb up the rocky mount attempting to remain as quiet as possible when you eventually get up on the top. You sit down to catch a few breaths of oxygen before looking up.
You remark you're not alone and there's already a lion sitting and waiting for what you could simply assume is also to observe the sunrise, you recall back and notice you haven't seen this lion before perhaps this lion is the king of this pride? You decide to sit down beside them. The lion doesn't speak nor acknowledges your presence. You don't look either or try to talk to them; you plainly sit in silences and watch the sunrise.
After the sun has risen, you look at the lion and recognize that it's a tigon," what are you looking at newbie," his voice was a bit bitter with a teasing tone, you look at his wings now that you think about it they look like the sunrise. he looked at you like he had just read your mind. he'd nod and spoke," The wings are a big part of a Veamore lion's life. We're not born with them. We have to earn them" you looked a bit confused at the tigon, he smirked," I know you're confused as you ain't a Veamore lion you wouldn't know any of our customs," he said lamely as if it was the most obvious thing in the world, you ask if he's the king, he chuckled as if you said something funny," No, I am not the king, this pride is lead by a queen, you probably won't see her, she has important business to attend too... Normally the prince would lead in her absence, but he has some things to attend too as well... but there's no need for them to be in contestant presence, as everyone lives in harmony, however, we do have a Sharman who guides us, when they're both unavailable, she's like a healer, but not really, they also preform rituals and keep our traditions and customs in check, and of course they're spiritually connected to our ancestors," he finished and got up.
He left you with more questions then answers as he leaped into the sky and spread his wings in such a graceful way you saw as he flew away, his image became smaller and smaller until you couldn't see him anymore.
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