Chapter One: Cubs of the Makers

He took his first breath, feeling a rough wet thing running against his still damp fur giving him the jitters and shakes. He's never breathed air outside before but it hit different than the air he breathed where he was last. But everything was based on feeling at this point. He still wasn't able to hear or see, but that wasn't a big deal I guess. His stomach immediately screamed for something. All that he could think of was the word felt like food to him, but he subconsciously assumed this ment put it in my tummy so it stopped rumbling his newly weak body. Hurriedly he crawled around, a big fluffy object was on his left and another on his right, felt like the same size as he was, but the bigger fluffy object that was lacking him clean of the goop that stained his fur, now pushed him to the direction of where he needed to be at. The direction to food. All he felt was a face full of a huge furry object with a soft pointy thing. Not knowing what's in his face he just naturally opened his mouth to ot and it leaked warm liquid. The taste was sweet but bitter at the same time. He loved the sudden flavor that poured into his mouth. So he naturally began to suckle on it not caring anymore about anything else. With more licking on his backend, he fully released fluids he felt himself holding, now he's no longer feeling belly bothers as he liked to think of calling it. With all the comfort in the qorld he drifted to sleep enjoying the constant food and warmth as did the other two. He knew they slept because they snored or vibrated. So he did the same too.

Her eyes watched the now comfortable cubs that began falling asleep. The proud smirk that sat on her lion lips explained enough. But with the feelings of proudness, happiness, and calmness was also met with nervousness and fear all at once. This is her second ever litter with a male from another pride, just like her first litter, she had to keep them secret then throw them to the world once they're old enough to fend for themselves to start their own pride. She couldn't return to her pride with them because the King isn't stupid and knows she hasn't been mating with him. She doesn't love him, plus their fur also says something. Two having blood red lace at the bottom and a brownish red fur toward the top. One female cub was a light tawny brown at the top while the other was a darker type of brown. Both very similar though. The last cub may get away with being snuck into the pride and placed into another lionesses litter.It was all white like her friend Tyla. With wavy mane and thickness that says he's primal. But her other male also calls out primer to her ears. Either way she knew the primal fact would get her in trouble alone. But she still didn't wish to chance this. So raising them in secret was all she could think about doing for right now. Her sister sitting at the mouth of the cave, it's a cold night so she knew it was almost time to bundle the cubs up for it will be an icy winter, her nervous shifting made Benna Maker look up and see her shifting. She pushed her ears back knowing her sister watched her.

"They won't come looking for us Senna. Come warm with us. Snow falls any minute. The more you stand there by the door the more you'll draw attention from others. We are only just 2 1/2 miles from them. They'll catch our smell if you stand there. Come here please." Benna said worriedly. Knowing Senna had a bad feeling in the pit of her stomach. They're twins after all. Benna and Senna were pushed at the same time from the same mother. But with that not being the only thing being strange of these two but also Benna and Senna have the same lengthy coats and colors. Bother a darker tone of black and white with a beautiful white set of specks. But both are born Makers.
Senna moved away from the mouth of the cave and joined her sister in a cuddle puddle of fur and love. Benna trusts Senna with not only her secret affair but she also kept her alive and carrying to full term. The got comfortable and rested all together.

Day 1: Cubs, feeding, and explaining.

By morning snow was rested on the ground. Benna woke and stretched herself, forgetting she had cubs she yanked a nipple by mistake from the third cubs mouth, making it sniffle, sneeze, and whimper. To keep her quiet she moved back in her spot of laying. Nuzzling the cub back in the direction of her nipple then returned the small one with "I'm sorry" kisses. Once the cub settled and became quite again she smiled to herself. 'Hard to believe they'll be stuck helpless like this for another 3-4 weeks. Senna brings in a forest hog carcass to feed Benna and herself for now then she'll shred the rest for later, she knows Benna won't eat much, so the shreds will be around when she is hungry. Then Senna digs a hole in the further part of the cave they stayed in, just so they can put the scraps in the hole for later. Senna returns and Benna waited. Senna tilted her head in confusion. "Not hungry?" Benna smiled I will raise myself once ik they're sleeping. You ever had cubs before?" She asked softly. Senna grinned. "Well I've had one cub and it wasn't a secret cub. So I'm used to just getting up and leaving it with the broodmothers of the pride just to eat and get public grooming from the other wives. I forgot how hard it is to have secret cubs when I've handled the first secret litter with you and now a second litter. Want me to keep throwing you shreds then?" Benna nodded and looked over to see them snuggled in place. The fact that the only girl was so tiny compared to her two muscular primal boys. She can't help herself to the most handsomest primal male in the pride lands past the sea. She adores that king enough to bear all his brains. She loves him but does he really feel the same? The fear of joining his pride when both her and her sister were forced into another kings pride makes her sick. She can't leave Senna to this other king.. they both don't do it out of love but they do it for fear that they'll be sold off to another pride and possibly separated forever. But in return she knows this is her life now. Living in secrets. Her first litter was 2 cubs. Once they reached 8months she raised them to hide, hunt, and build on their own. But the Kong gotten ahold of one of her cubs and she was punished to watch the cub be killed right in front of her. Breaking her heart completely and leaving it where her last cub from the litter had to keep running away and seeing as the months passed she doesn't even know if her little daughter made it. She teared up and ate the pieces her sister ripped and moved toward her. Senna feeling the sorrow feeling off her sister made her feel too sad to eat but forced herself to also eat in tears. Knowing Benna is hurting about the loss of her son and not knowing her daughter made it from her first secret litter. But this time she'll make sure this litter will live even if she needed to fight the Kong off also with that last breath she knows she has left in her. But the fact that Senna guessed why Benna was sad was a shock between them, but they're twins after all. And it doesn't take alot to understand why Benna cried. They sat together eating what their upset stomachs could handle, then Senna ripped up as much meat from the bones to bury for later. They sat together knawing on the bones, telling one another stories until the moon raised over them. Senna went back to the cave entrance and again watched outside still speaking to Benna about funny memories while she enjoyed the sight of the few inches of snow that laid on the ground. Watching it sparkle and fall out of the bare trees. "Any names yet?" Senna suddenly changed the subject again of course. "Yea just two of them so far. I've decided the big boy here is Paws Maker and the girl is Claws Maker. But this other male not sure of yet." Benna spoke in whispers. Feeling somewhat uncomfortable from laying in one space for so long. She badly wished to get up but the cold was intense and she didn't want the cubs to freeze. Even though with all the Nesting material, feathers and furs, it still would be way to cold for them. Senna smiled then walked to them and plopped near the cubs. She didn't have milk in her nipples but she'll let them endlessly and needlessly suckle the emptiness just so Benna could stretch and walk around some. She needed to drop the baby weight anyways before entering back into the pride. The king would notice small details and he isn't forgiving. As Benna paced around she looked outside to see what her sister always looks out to see. And she sees the constant traffic from the distance of their pride. Even tho they're like really tiny ants, they still could see all the movement and can smell all the new and old lionesses that walked around. The king made sure any male cubs born were killed on the spot. Having the life of a rough world always started with this pride. Never will see a male walking around there. Only ones dragged there to be fully ended by the king. Benna walked out in the moon light. She sat in it, bathing herself. Even though this cave was far and half up a mountain, no lioness nor the king can smell them. Or even see them, hunting was planned at the back of the mountain, its safer call and an off limits space because of hyenas. But they also wouldn't touch this exact mountain. This mountain was called curse mountain for a reason. Stories go, a monkey they call shawmin live up here, she curses anyone who touches the mountain which is usually traumatic disasters that happen to any and all. Usually involving elephants or hyenas. But Benna and Senna didn't fear this old wives tale. Even as cubs they both played on this mountain. This cave was their favorite club house.

The wind blew and made Benna shiver. The place she began walking around was a large ledge that wraps around the mountain and it surrounds just this cave, walking out to the ledge you can see the top of the mountain which is a huge tree. This tree is ancient, secret, even blissful or creepy for most. Which is why it's forbidden. In the tree is where Shawmin lives, and he/she(most know the monkey as she.) Comes out of there only to place fear. But she's NEVER seen. Benna walks back off the ledge to the cave and to Senna and her cubs, returning herself back in place. Senna picks them up and moves them back to Bennas nipples and returns to the other side of them to help her sister make a fuzzy blanket for the cubs. They lay their heads along one another and drift to sleep. Senna always stays alert, even in her sleep.

Day 2: Benna wakes and hears whines. These whines pit fear in her, making her jump up and look around, her nails at the ready for any danger only to see an empty cave. She looked down toward her stomach seeing the two male primal cubs slightly fighting over a nipple which is what caused them to make whimpers, whines, and small yips of pain. She nuzzled one away from the other and guided one to another nipple to quite them down. She still sits back nervously feeling unsafe and scared because Senna was out hunting for more things to block off some of the cave from the wind for her and the cubs as well as getting more meat so they don't run low on food through the short winter but the smell and feeling of a blizzard mocks their lion senses.

Hours go by and Senna enters with sticks wrapped around her tail and her mouth. Then drops off her first bit of items then comes over to greet her sister with a loving head butt and some nuzzling and purring even though it was a love growl, it was just as comforting as the love bites she also gives. "I'll Come back in a bit. I got so much more" her tone was cheerful and exciting. She leaves again, leaving Benna in her own self thoughts. Senna comes back but leaves. Taking the most 12 trips just to create this little room for Benna. Keeping the cold out, warmth in, and making a great place to have a hoard of meat through their winter. Once she was done she sat back eating finally a full meal. Once Benna knew the temperature was warm enough and her cubs fast asleep along each other, she gets up to also eat a full meal. Even though lions base their eating habits on how much calories or pounds to survive on, benna hasn't been eating much and has lost alot of the baby weight but still not skinny enough to be her usual weight she had when she first ran the pride. As she is the 8th queen, she was low enough to not be missed if she was gone forever but enough to be noticed if the king was ready for her, he would find her scent and force her to mate with him. But she wasn't ever the main choice. She was the choice when the other queens he had weren't in the mood for him. With the higher queens, mostly the main 5, they had him by the balls. Literally they controlled more than Senna and Benna. But they also knew Benna's secret, and as a team who loved eachother. They kept her secret and wished the best and most for her as well as Senna. They knew what was good for them. So they kept it from the king cause those queens knew Senna and Benna would do the same for them. But because they're in the pride only and kept it that way, they never dishonored the king in anyways because they accepted their fate. But those were the first 5 he chose when they traveled alone and had no one. So either way they respected him since day one.
Benna enjoyed her day of freedom from the babies as they stayed asleep and motionless, only breathing and snoozing in their pile of fur and sticks. She watched Senna keep things in order, even kept the wall plastered together with honey and mud. She calls it rock makers. Because it gets hard and sticks together as well as keeps its sticky form just to build up protection. But it stays molded and together. Nothing could take that wall down and mice and birds would be attracted to it, start licking it, until they touch it. Then it's a trap and can't get freed until they're plucked off by a bigger beast. Which of course would be Senna herself taking them off or killing them on the spot. Benna walks out to stand on the ledge where she stood last night. Watching her pride from a huge distance. Seeing lioness lounging around, or some eating, others were building on another cave space getting ready for the next great Nesting. It was so quite beside the sounds of wind or hyenas loudly yapping and laughing from behind the mountain with that same slightly closer but lower distance than her pride. She walks along the ledge seeing it gets smaller than wider again. But one thing made her more nervous. The sounds coming from that huge tree above. She looked up seeing leaveless branches clashing together, but that wasn't the main sound that made her nervous. It was the sounds inside that made her curious. She badly wanted to climb up there, but she didn't dare bother the Shawmin(monkey). She knew that the monkey knew they were there. I mean their scent was strong along the mountain and even Senna made this mountain smell mainly like her with all the urine she left around the outside, claiming this mountain as hers. Benna watched the tree hole carefully. Seeing some movement, making her scared for her cubs. But the eyes that peered out and the movement stopped along with the sounds. Now it's just a stare down. The eyes had a beautiful golden yellow on the inside near the pupils and then the color moved outwards of a grayish blue. Benna nervously smiled at the darkness with eyes and a soft hoot of hello returns to her. She would have mistaken it as an owl, but even birds know not to touch Shawmin's tree. She would turn them into a monkey soup. After seeing Benna ment no harm or threat, Shawmin carried on with her noises, diverting her eyes to below where her hands were and this weird object was with another weird object. Benna didn't know what those things were called. So she let's a sigh out and continued to walk.

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Benna knew she was gone for some time but also knew Senna was done for the days work and stayed with Benna's babies as if watching them. She was Benna's broodmother in a form of way. Benna continued her walk around the mountain, seeing the back of mountain where nothing but what laid along there was woods of leafless trees and boneyards where elephant laid their dead and hyenas played at. But this wasn't where the hyenas lived. This was their torture palace is what the lions would call it. Where some will torture lions and lioness cubs. But with how far this all was, they won't be trying to pick Benna's barins. She knew they'd be safe. Atleast safe until the king finds out. He would stomp on the Shawmin's curse as if it was a joke. Benna continued walking fully around the ledge of the mountain, carrying on her exercise as well as entertaining her curiosities. Walking over 2,000 steps as this mountain was pretty wide and long as well as sorta huge, she had to count each step by four. Which is less number for a human because they only have two weak legs to count. So for humans it might be as much as 700 or 1,200 possibly. They stride and miscount. Not as calculated as us lioness. Benna smirked, remarking how dumb they are to her. She's killed a few to know they aren't smart. They always get themselves into danger and at the same time risk others lives. Such careless creatures. The amount of fires they've made out here, making sure animals really can't make it is what's so horrible. Even lions learn to give other creatures mercy and yet thank them for a meal by allowing us to lick them raw. This was how lions prayed to their lion king God's and goddess. We lick our pray raw. Benna kept walking, no bug, no bird. Just wind and some noises here and there from the tree above. But ignored. By the time Benna made it back to the entrance, the smell of meat tickled her nose but it also covered the scent of cubs hidden inside well. But the fear of bringing unwelcome intruders who don't know the rules of this mountain scared her. She entered fully to see Senna cleaning the whimpering and whining cubs. Watching them shakily wobble away from the uncertain being cleaning them made Benna giggle. She can already tell these cute bastards are gonna give her trouble once their ears and eyes open. Senna watches Benna fully enter, covering the light that enters the doorway. She goes to her cubs and starts cleaning them. They know it's their mother by the scent that now embeds their brains from them suckling and burying their faces in her fur. As they stop fighting knowing their mother has returned. They calm down and whine for more food. Their fat stomachs cry for more and she knows this is a great sign they'll never starve with her. She lays in her space and let's them crawl back to her bipples for their meal again. She smiles to Senna. "I'm parched. Mind fetching some water roots and maybe find a coconut wall for water?" Senna nodded and got up. She knew what she ment. They don't know what 'bowls' were yet. They just called them small walls. Because they weren't told it was called a bowl.

Senna returned with both. Water root soaking and the bowl of water and set down by Benna. By then they noticed it was starting to get dark. Benna lapped up the water then looked at Senna to also drink. So with that signal she did. "I came up with the big white males name. He's gonna be called Angel. I did think snowball maker but the 3rd queen Biscuit named her daughter snowball. Don't want them confused. So angel is his name." Senna nodded with agreement to their names "Paws, Claws, and Angel maker. Super cute!" Senna said excitedly. She enjoyed the role of broodmother and auntie to her sisters cubs. She watched them suckle and wobble around. Cute little bean bag barins. She began finally finishing some work around their new hut kind of cave. She shredded the meat a buried it just so the blood smell wouldn't draw attention. Or so she hoped. After burying everything, a knock on the side of the rocks got both lioness up and drawn to the sudden large creature entering the opening to their cave. With no warning Senna runs to the front of the entrance putting herself between Benna and the cubs. Benna up and standing over her whining cubs and nails bared. Senna almost began clawing the intruder but stopped in her tracks as she stayed stiff infront of Benna's line of sight but not enough to see the huge creatire squizing mindlessly past the wall.

A sniffing and snort made both lioness fur prickle up and on point, nails still bared and teeth showing. Low growls from both lioness made the creature watch. An ape like grunt rumbled twice along the cave walls made both lioness fear for the worst. Her voice grumbled but firm "calm queens. We have no corrals. I come to bless your children and you both from curse. I'm what you call Shawmin. My actual name is Grenchan. I'm a gorilla from above. You can still call me Shawmin but I'm just a witch doctor of a form. I knew you've been here many times. This cave I made as a baby. My mother had me in this very cave. It was passed down. Tree is colder Than here. We usually never have cold but change has come to us now. I also wish to share my home with you as it will be blizzard tonight. You have food, I bring more. You have warmth, I have protection and care. I also have medicine. Struggling mother and safe sister is a plus to bring us as one." She makes monkey grunts. He tone was firm but loving. She ment no harm so the lioness return to what they're doing. Benna still watched. "Your eyes met mine, mother queen. You seen me make protection paint at my table." Benna nodded. "Table?" She didn't know what the word was. As they had some different language, the gorilla was also moving her hands alot when she spoke. "Table is a place humans and monkeys eat at. Unlike lions we don't feed from ground. We feed in cleaner manner. And don't feel threatened by hand movements. This is called sign language. A way to commilunicate to humans. I can't stop doing it. I was taught this by my mother. She was raised by humans when a thing called poachers had taken her family leaving her as a baby. Some humans good. Some humans bad. I cam teach you about spoons, forks, bowls, plates, tables, sign language even though you have paws. You can speak to good people by body language and teach them you are not bad if they aren't bad. But without hands you can still write with tail or toes. I can on my feet." Benna was all around confused with multiple of the words. She whispers to Senna "I think she's rusty with our language" the gorilla smiled and shook her head no. "I speak your language good enough. But the words I use you don't know of because they aren't familiar things to you. You kinda know what a bowl is, but your kind call bowls 'small walls of water so you will learn by me." The gorilla finds a space away from the doorway. She sees how dark it is and has some issues reading the faces of lioness's body language and face. So she gathers the unused sticks in the middle of the cave and places it in a great space then creates a fire. Scaring bother Senna and Benna. "It's ok. It's called fire. It hurts when not controlled right. This keeps warm and helps see in dark. I see more like humans. Dark is hard to see through for me, unlike lions you can see in dark, I can see slightly in dark. I have bad sight for being very old. My time is so small. But I will teach you before I'm too old. There are alot of gorillas. Most are what they call doctor. Doctor can mean many things. Gorilla is smart. We know how to fix bad things that happen to animals. We fix broken bones and sickness. But some sickness is strong so we pray to a God human worship. Some have their own God or goddess. Some follow lion religion whole others follow hyena beliefs. We also make sacrifices like harming our own. I dislike that. I don't do it. I instead sacrifice small animal or zebra." She sat down and kept her hands down by the fire but not too close. Benna kept feeding her cubs and Senna laid down near Benna and started getting sleepy.
Shawmin started to speak again before saying goodnight. "I will start teaching in cave with you tomorrow then we bless you two and cubs for safety." Then the gorilla laid down to sleep.

Day 3: Gorilla stuff.

Gretchen was up before anyone else. She was marking on the wall words but questions near some of how to explain them. Using the charred branches from the fire. Senna woke then undue some meat for them to eat. The gorilla stopped writing just to start another fire in the fireplace she made better. She added rocks in a circle and vented the smoke to go a certain direction. She used more of the huge pile of wood to feed the fire and made a thick stick go across the rock display. Senna was confused by how the gorilla had everything but kept watching her. She took some meat away from Senna's burying spot. "We cook meat, but you made meat dirty. So I use snow to wash. I will be right back." She quietly as possible left with an arm full of meat and Senna followed her with a mouthful of meat chunks. They went outside and washed the meat in snow. They return back in with clean meat. Benna soon wakes and watches the gorilla shake the meat of all the extra snow then took the thick stick off the rock display and forced them meat on it. The gorilla had 3 more thick sticks aside for Benna and herself. Making Senna's meat first, they didn't know Benna woke up already. The gorilla started cooking the meat for 20mins to 30mins. Then handed it to Senna once it cooled to take off the the gorilla lined up smaller sticks and placed the cooked meat on it like a plate. "You try meat. You love it. Never eat meat the same after this" gorilla made a monkey hoot of laughter. Senna leaned down chomping it down. Her eyes widened from the intensed charred flavor. Just like the monkey claimed it was outstanding to her. Monkey made another hoot of laughter then made more meat. Turning it in circles and cooking it nicely. She created more lines of small sticks and called it a plate. This was a huge lesson for these lionesses, in Senna's mind, this was a perfect treasure of knowledge and something she will use more often for sure. Benna on the other hand dislikes the changes even though she rose from her spot and knawed down on her share of cooked me. Enjoying the charred flavors also, she knew this was temporary changes for them bit she knew it was alien for them. Something that humans teach other close to humaniod creatures and something lions shouldn't know because of the dangers it could cause. She looked away and gulped a few times. A lions way of clearing their throat.

"I loved that taste for sure. But this is forbidden knowledge miss Shawmin... it could create... voodoo or punishments in prides.... you don't fully understand our ways." Benna said honestly. Gretchen nods slightly. "True. Fire is hard to concure when you have no thumbs. But it is possible if you learn not to drool and you keep this to yourselves. Prides can be cruel and seeing as your in my birthing cave with cubs that are for one unnatural and two hidden from your pride that is located 2 1/2 miles from here tells me we both have forbidden knowledge. I know prides and male cubs are against pride Basingstoke. So this means you'll have to leave your cubs once they either hit 7months or adolescent age. They can be raised by me or by wild. Your choice Queen." Benna knew she was right. So she slightly smiled. "A gorilla wishes to tame my deformed babies? This is first time an offer has been granted on me.... I have had my first litter here also. Why wasn't this offer there then?" Benna said a bit irritated. She was starting to feel mad that her cubs had no chance and she watched one be ripped to pieces and the other one watch and traumatically forced to run and hide alone for what she feels was the rest of her life. The gorilla felt hurt by her tone she gave. "Well I was in another location Queen. Do not read me wrong. If I knew then I would make the offer many times to you because I love mothering cubs. I have for other lioness in other locations. You aren't only pride out here nor only mother hiding babies. I did raise a cub not far from this pride long ago. She was small for a 6month old. She mentioned her name as Mist maker. Must have been yours. She wasn't ok in her mind. I made her forget what that bad memory was. She cried in lion ancient language which I did not understand what she says. So I made her forget her pain. She runs a pride of her own now. Grown. Looks like you. I did save one baby you had left and she's well. When these cubs walk and see. I'll take you and them to her. She will accept you all in her pride? Maybe. She accepts males but she won't allow any male ruler in her pride. She is strong and smart. But don't mention whatever happened. She may hate you. She grew angry toward her mother and father for not loving her. So try to convince her some of the truth. But not the rest for it may make her hurt again." Benna became teary then let's a wail out. She got up from her sleeping cubs and hugged the gorilla suddenly. The gorillas strong arms went around her also and she petted Benna calm. Senna came over and cried also hugging the gorilla and the gorilla did the same. "You both sad for memories. I can make it go away... if you hurt?" Benna shook her head. She wanted to remember her baby Duo. She lost him tragically but the memory must stay. She had nothing left of him. They ate him after torturing and ripping him apart. Her pride was cruel. The queens weren't apart of it. They each cried for Duo also. The gorilla watched the sun from the cave hole and rose making the lionesses move.

"We must start the protection before full moon tonight. I will be back with paint and seasonings to spread on you two and those cubs. They'll be touched with evil if we don't start as soon as the full moon." The gorilla slipped by the walls doorway. Some time passed and Senna was trying to regain herself as well as Benna. "She must stay with us Benna, we need her. We should see Mist. Or start our own pride. I hate Baskel! He's the worst king!" Senna started yelling kind of. Benna nodded and feeling empty with everything. She didn't know what to do or how to think. "Let's talk to Mist first... then we can make choices from there on. I'm about ready to leave Baskel's pride also. He has too many queens and his pride isn't that large. He just takes in more basic females and won't open his mind to our types... we are too rare for his collection and yet treated like scraps of meat. He mates with us because the prettier basic queens don't want him or aren't in heat. Leaving us to figure out our own heat or bothers us without choices to be bred by him. With force at that... I just.... I don't know what to do Senna..." Benna walks to her cubs and watches them sleep and twitch. "I want what's best for them. We have to return to his pride until he doesn't want us or he'll hunt for us once he knows we've been gone to long." Before the conversation continues. Gretchen returned and held a bowl of crushed bugs and blood settled in a bowl with seasonings she calls it which is Beetle shells crushes, dead leaves also crushed and spider legs dried and crushed mixed together. It's her defense against evil intentions. Which is what surrounds this whole mountain. No full history on why. At least not yet. The gorilla not caring if the cubs are woken, she picks one at a time up. The first one was the white one with a brandish of slight colors running through his fur. But full primal proof he was a thick furry cub. She rubbed the paint on his head, body, and legs plus paws. She seasoned him, then laid him back down in their nest. The gorilla then grabbed the girl cub. Small and fragile. She's smaller than the gorillas hand which the gorilla held her as carefully as possible. Marking her as well.

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Once she lifted the last cub, she shook with nervousness. Then looked at Benna. Not wanting to mention somethings wrong. She marked him anyways then placed him down quickly. Benna was confused but dismissed it as gorillas are not usually good at being careful with fragile things. Gretchen then marked Benna and Senna and spoke in gorilla language. Probably a prayer to protect every soul sitting on this mountain. Then she went to the wall.

"The darker boy. He is in danger. Not death but he will cause death. He's evil... very..... evil. He's going to lose himself to hell. Rebirth of loss... the ashes of sorrow. You cried on him without knowing where your tears went. He fed on your pain, he obsorbed your feelings. To save him from himself, he must live among the apes and learn the safe ways. He's gonna burn everything with his filled anger." Benna was lost but knew this was what she had to do. Leave her cubs once they stop nursing. "Will they hate me for leaving?" Gretchen shook her head no. Then wrote on the rock wall. "Lions are born with.. titles I guess you can say. Each title reserves the kind they'll always be. But those lions with resentment and anger usually are forever evil. It can change if they give or get karma. The best karma will make then sensitive and good rulers but bad ones usually can be gained through heritage. He may have gotten it from his father or pain from his mother. After they're born they're obsorbing that emotional problem then when they see things and do things, their actions will feed from what they sympathize with most. But if they don't gives them worst kind of karma. Making them evil. Paws is becoming evil slowly, but chances are so is Angel. But Claws... she has alot if purity. Angel sways and paws stays. This is common in 3 cubs. But maybe there's chances claws can balance them both" Benna and Senna watch what Gretchen says and understands immediately how she explains it. But the fear of the power they each have makes Benna nervous. Gretchen grins "she's the beacon. She holds the key to heaven and paws is the key to hell. But what rules is up to them. So guide them from a distance." Benna nods and looks to Senna to help. Senna immediately knew that look and nods with agreement to doing all she can to help. "BUT!" Gretchen says loudly "if you fade, they'll all resent and makes them evil as soon as they don't know you or remember you. Once you given up on them shows they can't sympathize with YOU. I see the future and it goes one of many ways. Those are unmentionable. But from what I see is these cubs have potential chances at everything." She then turns to another part of the wall and start writing more things. "Now to teach you basic monkey knowledge! This thing here is a table" she draws it and writes words in lion language. "This is a bowl, this is what we make protection paint, this is what we call seasonings. Not what you put on food. Humans use flavors and also call it seasonings. But these are different to a point. This seasoning does not make food taste good but you can consume it as if it was a flavor. But this is used for protection and guiding to light. Despite the evil that radiates off a lion it still protects them and guides them to the light. This is a plate. Can be made with or from wood but also bones just like a bowl can also. It can be from stone once you get a good grip and sand down right on rocks or bolders it makes it flat. You can use your paws to grab and sand it flat. Teeth from the dead can be used as weapons or even clothing for lions. Lions don't have to dress but just to look scary to fight opponents it helps! I will in the days teach you recipes to things. How to make fire and so much more. If your willing to learn?" Both Benna and Senna agreed with a nod and glances to eachother. They both smiled. Suddenly the cubs cry for food, Benna struts to her furballs and plops down. Guiding them and licking them clean. Feeling their temperature dropped a bit, she went to work warming them up. By now the sun had sunk and a large moon with brightness rose up. It was the full moon. Shining glorious light. The cubs began to warm up and the beauty in the cave says everything. It was perfect sights. Benna wished she could share this moment with Munkoo. The pride leader from Xera. Knowing she can't join that pride or be Munkoo's wife kills her inside. But these cubs she has is more than enough from him and their romance is now at an end without either of them mentioning it. This is where she needs to put herself first and these cubs are part of herself. So now she knows what to do next. Gretchen keeps a fire going while on watch with it. Senna and Benna rest against the cubs, keeping them warm together. They sleep lightly but they sleep is all that matters.

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