[PRIVATE: DGFone & Thewhistlerify]

[DGFone]

Luckily for the brothers, the trainer had one of the other trainees answer. Because if he called one of them, Delano didn't know what Muroki would have answered, but he knew his. Kill them. Don't leave it to chance.

The trainer nodded at the answer he got. "Yes, sometimes it is best to just avoid them if you can."

Delano grunted quietly. Already tried that. Didn't work out too well.

But then the trainer spoke up again. "And what if they come towards you, either by accident or they saw you already. What if they ask for help?" He looked around. "I want someone confident to answer.... say, number seven? Would you mind enlightening us?"

Delano's blood ran cold. That was Muroki's number.

[TheWhistlerify]

Muroki froze at that. Did the trainer really think that he was the confident one in the group? Because he didn't really feel like it. At first the others didn't seem to remember that he was number seven, but after a few mumblings between them they all looked at him, so that relief didn't last too long. "I..." he tried to think of what he would do, which wasn't that hard of a question; of course that he would help them. But after what happened to their parents, he just wasn't sure. "You can't trust anyone you don't know. They might be wanting to kill you, and they might not, you can't know for sure." he sighed, "Unless they were in a weak state which really required help and also made them too weak to hurt you, I'd try to leave."

[DGFone]

"And what if they want help for another lion that you didn't see?" The trainer asked. "Think, think, think! That's what your here for. What if you have no choice but to follow them? What is a smart thing to do? Anyone?" He looked around, waiting for an answer.

"Well... follow them but far enough away," Delano said after some hesitation. "Don't be so close that they can suddenly attack you, and stay alert of your surroundings..."

[TheWhistlerify]

Muroki also seemed to hesitate slightly, "Or have them bring the lion there, so you don't have to follow them and can keep your distance."

[DGFone]

The trainer nodded. "Exactly! Sometimes you have to go along, but never forget that ultimately, the only lion who can save yourself, is in fact, you."

Delano sighed with relief when the trainer liked their answers. He was worried that the trainer would somehow find them wrong in some reason.

"Now continuing with our scenario," the trainer said, "what if this strange lion leads to another lion who is indeed dying and asks for your help. What do you do?"

[TheWhistlerify]

Muroki thought for a moment, "Try to help him but don't turn your back on the first lion?"

[DGFone]

"And what if you can't?" The trainer asked. "What are you going to do to make sure that the healthy lion stays away?"

Delano didn't know the answer for that one. "Keep him on the other side of the dying lion?" He suggested.

[TheWhistlerify]

Muroki was about to say what Delano said, but since Delano already said it he just nodded silently.

[DGFone]

This time the trainer did not like the answer. "One lion isn't much of a barrier is it?" He asked. "How's one lion going to stop another from attacking you if they can't move?" He looked around. "Anyone have any other suggestions?"

[TheWhistlerify]

Muroki said, "What he meant was that then you can look at the dying lion without turning your back on the other."