Scarla

Scarla, once simply called 'Red' was never meant to be apart of Cenric's pride.

Picked up as a youth, she was intended to be thrown to to the gorillas in exchange for a batch of white flowers, intended to be gifted to his new daughter, but for whatever reason, the gorillas refused to take her. She did not appeal to them for once reason or another, and though it annoyed Cenric to no end, he was captured by his curiosity.

Why, he wondered, did they not want this one particular cub, when as far as he could tell, she was exactly what they had asked him for?

Wary but intrigued, Cenric decided that the best course of action was to return to his pride with her, so that perhaps he might discover what had turned the gorillas away from her, and what value such a trait could hold.

She wasn't particularly strong, not in the slightest. In fact, she was weaker than even some of the newborn cubs, but even so, there was surely a way in which he could learn to utilise whatever unique circumstance happened to follow her.

Cenric wasn't the only one to find themselves intrigued by the young lioness, though.
She ended up growing closer to Yurena, another outsider amidst the pride, who often lingered on the outskirts of a hunt. They often found themselves whispering about others; about the cruel feelings of being an outsider within your own home and watched like some sort of attraction, or perhaps, like smoke in the sky when you weren't sure which way the wind would blow.