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Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2017 9:24 am


	Eione was in a gloomy mood today. She was no stranger to death but she was hardly immune to it, and checking in with Nyesha after Mittere's death had left her feeling guilty and sad. Perhaps she should have known better than to leave her in charge, but Mittere had barely tolerated the presence of her family. A Dusk Healer was certainly not welcome. And, of course, this was a family close to her heart in its own way. Maji was their king now, had married her niece.. but his mother would always be her friend. She found some small reassurance knowing that now, Nyesha was with both of her mothers. Walking without thinking, she ended up rather close to den formerly occupied by Mittere.

Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2017 9:30 am


	Pacing back and forth just outside the den was Sedare. The white and pink lioness was muttering to herself as she moved, glaring at the ground on which she walked as if it had personally offended her. Her mother had only passed yesterday, but it had been a very long morning thus far. The lioness could wish she'd gotten more sleep, but not if it had been along the lines of what she'd already had... The sounds and scents of someone else nearby alerted Sedare to the fact that she was no longer alone. Looking up, she saw Eione. Suddenly, a number of things clicked in her mind and she rushed over to the older lioness. "That lion you met, on the border. What did he look like?" the Warrior demanded.

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Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2017 9:42 am


	When Eione looked up, realizing where she was, she wasn't at all surprised to see Sedare standing there. She was surprised, though, when she suddenly rushed forward and asked questions that should have been asked much sooner. The general disinterest when passing along her story had been a surprise, and she couldn't quite figure out why it had put her off. "He looked quite a bit like you, actually," she said, "Same basic pattern over his back but a lighter pink instead of white. Same eyes." She paused, trying to think of what her siblings looked like. "He had the same magenta color as one of your brothers."

Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2017 9:47 am


	Sedare's blue eyes narrowed as she considered the words she'd been offered. No no, it wasn't right. The similar colors, sure, but the pattern was wrong and the eyes most of all. The lion she'd seen was pink from mane to tailtip, even his deep eyes. Those eyes...Sedare shuddered involuntarily as she remembered what she'd seen in her dream. They had appeared warm and friendly from a distance, but then they'd drawn her in closer and closer, until she was drowning in them and they were cold as ice... "No, it's not him," were the only words she said aloud, drooping somewhat as if it was her fault the visitor and the vision differed.

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Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2017 9:54 am


	Eione tilted her head at the reaction her description got. Sedare had been expecting another answer, Eione knew that without even thinking about it.. and even being questioned about this again made her uneasy feelings about the whole thing return. "He was young, younger than you," she added, "You're thinking of someone older, aren't you?" The Duchess had never really spoken of her visions, she never really wanted to.. but something was worrying her, something she couldn't explain.

Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2017 10:00 am


	The younger lioness was so caught up in her problems that she barely acknowledged Eione's words, trying to figure out why the two were so different. "I-yes," she answered distractedly, still pummeling her brain. Then she realized what the Duchess had actually said. "Wait...you've seen him too?" The blue eyes were wider than normal with fear. This was...nothing Sedare had ever dealt with before. Nor anything that she had ever been raised to deal with. Suddenly, Eione was far more than a source of information about the stranger.

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Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2017 10:10 am


	Hesitantly, Eione nodded. "Kind of," she said, "It's hard to explain." And that was the worst part of it all. Whatever she had seen had barely been enough to comprehend, had been over in a flash.. and was the only thing that gave her an uneasy feeling about the whole thing. "Mahre, the lion on the border, seemed nice," she said, "But.."

Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2017 10:12 am


	Sedare watched, patiently. Winning a battle wasn't always about overwhelming your opponent with force, or so her mother had taught. Sometimes one required patience and stealth. The younger lioness got the impression that there was something very important going on, right here and right now, and to say the wrong thing or come on too strong would make Eione run away. "But...what?" she pressed the older lioness. She had to know. What she'd dreamt...she had to know what Eione knew.

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Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2017 10:18 am


	Eione was silent and looked very carefully at Sedare. Mittere's children were hardly the overtly friendly type but the Duchess would never have let that stop her in telling them she believed she had met a relative of theirs. Perhaps it was because they didn't seem to care about the information that nobody had noticed the concern hiding in her explanation then, but it only made things worse to be asked questions now. "Mahre wasn't dangerous," she said, "But something about meeting him was. I can't explain it."

Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2017 10:22 am


	"It's the other lion," Sedare said at last. "The all pink one." She shivered, though the day was warm. She had not liked seeing that other lion, not one bit. And he was coming. She knew it. His footfalls bore the weight of history and his eyes were the cold of death. "What's the connection?" she muttered to herself, Eione's presence momentarily forgotten as the Warrior sought to force her information into a cohesive whole.

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Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2017 10:34 am


	Eione nodded. Sedare was right, whoever the other lion was.. he was the problem. The strangeness of their shared knowledge was not lost on her, though, and she was more distracted by that than puzzling out the connection between lions. She had never had a conversation like this before, they said so little that anybody listening would be utterly confused and yet they both understood completely. "The connection doesn't matter, if I had to guess then it is likely his father," she said, finally, "What happens next is what worries me." Though Sedare may have seen far into the past, Eione's vision was much more recent. She had seen Facio as he was now, old but still strong and dangerous. Her trust in visions of the future was minimal, she refused to lose faith in free will and the power you had to change your fate. The future was malleable and affected by so many players. That Mittere was responsible for training so many of their warriors was a blessing, in her opinion.. if there was something coming, the pride could be in no better paws.

Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2017 10:46 am


	"Father?" Sedare asked sharply, glancing up at Eione once more. It was certainly plausible...but why, then? She'd seen the pink male, the dangerous one, wrestling with her mother. But it hadn't been her mother, for she'd had many fewer scars and her blue eyes were unshadowed. From Mittere's attitude, the duel had been fun. But the other lion... ...he'd looked like he'd wanted to kill her. "But if he's his father, why was he fighting Mother?" the Warrior muttered some more.

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Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2017 10:53 am


	Sedare seemed to be overthinking the situation, Eione didn't need any special access to information to make a guess on this one. Just like she didn't need any help to assume that the lion she had seen was Mahre's father. Maybe he wasn't, he could have been an uncle, cousin, brother.. families could get big and convoluted. It was often rare here but not impossible. It only took a second trying to imagine what Mittere might have looked like if she were healthy, to try to imagine how old she truly was.. "The obvious answer would be that they are brother and sister," she said, "I don't truly know how Mahre and this lion are connected, but father and son is the obvious choice. And I don't know how they connect to your mother, either.. but if Mittere was his aunt, Mahre gave no indication."

Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2017 10:55 am


	"An uncle?" The white and pink lioness considered the word in the context of the information she possessed. It...sounded right. Which was...strange. "But why wouldn't Mother tell us we had an uncle?" the words came out plaintively as Sedare felt more like a cub (or at least an adolescent) than she had since...since she broke her leg! She knew that Mittere wasn't one for chitchat, but how could she have left out such an important piece of information?

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Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2017 11:02 am


	There were plenty of reasons not to talk about certain blood relatives. Sometimes it just didn't matter that they were out there, and sometimes it was better they were forgotten.. both opinions she would apply to her biological father, in fact. "That I can't answer," Eione said simply.

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