Iscus

Iscus was not a stupid lioness, she knew her only value was in the amount of cubs she would bear whenever her heat came around, and as she got older all she could do was watch as the pride leader started to focus more on the poor lionesses kept in a little cave closer to his own den, as some of the cubs that he deems undesirable are taken away and brutally disposed of somewhere deep in the marsh.

She watches as he acts like the kind and patient leader the younger cubs are led to believe he is, as he lies and pretends to be something he is not. His own agenda and plans costing the lives of so many cubs and of all the wandering lionesses he lures in with shelter and a meal, none of them ever meet this unknown criteria.

He doesn't have to threaten her like he does to the younger mothers when he takes them far away to sell them to random lions during their heats, she's getting too old to do anything about it for him to consider her a problem.

She hopes she can use that hubris to sow some seeds of doubt, some of the younger males are looking promising as future pride leader. Mheetu was unfortunately turning out to be the spitting image of his father, and as his firstborn it was likely that he was going to be their leader, but the young Fury had much higher potential and she hopes that even the mad Cheetu would see that.