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Jetstream prowled around suspiciously poking at each bush until she was satisfied that no animal had escaped from her. She was a hunter and it was shown by the muscles rippling across her sleek fur. Lately, the food had been scarce and it had been difficult for her pride to make do, and they often had to resort to small meat chunks and other scraps. Jetstream was determined that she could provide for her pride, but it seemed that all the food was disappearing. Later that night, Jetstream crawled into her cave, settled down amongst the other lions, and tried to sleep. After some time she started drifting off to sleep but then heard a twig snap outside of her den. She slowly got up being careful not to step on the cubs and walked outside. It was humid outside and Jetstream heard nothing except for the bugs buzzing around. She waited for a few minutes and then deciding that she had heard nothing, started walking back toward her den. SNAP! This time Jetstream jumped and looked around warily. “Who’s there?” Jetstream advanced toward the source of the sound slowly. “I’m warning you… you better show yourself,” she snarled. Suddenly another lioness pounced out of the tree a few feet away from Jetstream. Jetstream could see that the lioness was harmless compared to a hunter like herself. “I’m Duchess,” she said quietly. “Sorry if I surprised you. Your pride needs to travel north, immediately. I know of the troubles that you’ve had finding food.” Duchess then disappeared as quickly as she appeared. Jetstream looked at the ground in confusion as questions began to fill her head. Why north? How did Duchess know that her pride had been having trouble finding food? Suddenly Jetstream noticed that the sun was already rising, and she went back to her den to wake everyone up. As soon as she’d told the story of the night before her pride began buzzing with talk. Suddenly their leader, Calian hushed them all and said, “I know Duchess. She was like a friend to me, but many years ago we grew apart. If she told Jetstream that we must move north, then we will move north.” Some of the pride members nodded their heads in agreement. “We must start moving quickly, I would like to arrive before the sun sets today.” Later the pride began walking north with Jestream and Calian leading. No one complained not even the slightest even when their paws were sore and had blisters all over them. Eventually, they arrived at a forest that was thick with green vegetation, something that they all had not seen in a very long time. Jetstream’s eyes widened as she saw fruit upon fruit hanging on the trees. Then they came to a large cave and the pride members settled down to rest from all of their traveling. Jetstream was excited that finally, her pride members could have all they wanted to eat. Jetstream said a silent thank you to Duchess and then drifted off to sleep…
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