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A brittle and sharp-tongued lioness previously known only as Red, she watched the slow destruction of her previous pride through drought and infighting with dread growing in her stomach, alongside a grim determination to survive. Her pride might succumb to the madness of relentless heat, but she would not.
She kept well away from fighting and survived purely as a scavenger, by the skin of her own teeth, for seasons. Even succeeding in keeping herself alive, the isolation and difficulties of living on her own wore on her, and she was in a rather sorry state by the time she saw rain for the first time in months.
It seemed like a miracle. But then... maybe not. That strange lion she'd run into a few days earlier had said something about rain. She had scoffed and dismissed him, fleeing alone as she did from all males who wandered through the area. She had found it strange he would venture to say such a thing in a land that had been drought-scorched for so long..... But he had been right. He had said the Sun would have mercy, and it had.
Red Dawn named herself when she joined the Sun Kingdom, pledging her devotion and all her vicious, if meager, strength to Vast of the Endless Sun and whatever his vision for the pride would be. She does not understand it, but she fully believes that Vast can commune with some sort of Sun entity, and that his coming is what will finally give her back the home she has missed so dearly.
Her adoration of Vast is well-known within the pride, and she not only looks forward to the birth of Vast's first cubs, but also anticipates the opportunity to have her own litter with him.
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