A Change of Plans [PRIVATE: AC & The Whistlerify]

[AustralianChaos]

Tanga nodded, silently taking all this in with minimal response. He had always been smaller than everyone else, and that, therefore, made him weaker, too. A couple of lionesses in the Pridelands had mentioned that many runts like him did not live for very long...but to hear that it was reason his parents had left him...because they could not bear to watch him die, was strangely touching...but at the same time, left him feeling a little betrayed.

"Okay..." he said, his voice completely without emotion, simply because he did not know what to feel. "Thank you for telling me...but I could that moment alone, now."

[TheWhistlerify]

Busara sighed and decided Tanga could really use some time alone. He just forced another smile to his muzzle before he turned around and left the place quietly

[AustralianChaos]

Tanga sighed once more as Busara left, before turning back to Marini. He was about to cuddle up to her once more, when he remembered the liquid on his wounds, and realised he could not do it.

Instead, Tanga lay down on his side beside Marini, making sure he had not disturbed his wounds, before shuffling backwards until his back was touching hers, drawing comfort even from the small contact as he sighed and relaxed once more, again not going to sleep after sleeping right through most of their journey here.

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Kali looked up, noticing Busara leaving a section of very tall grass with a strange look on his face. realising that he must have met Tanga in there, she got to her, gesturing for Uhuru to follow as she approached her mate.

"Was he in there?" she asked simply as she came up to his side, nuzzling him.

[TheWhistlerify]

Busara nodded his head in a yes and was about to tell the story Tanga told him when he noticed Uhuru was still there. But he decided to tell it anyway when hen oticed Uhuru began chasing a butterfly.
Once he was finished with the story he sighed, before turning to his mate once more, "I guess that answers your questions about why are they here and where Mufasa is." he said before taking a glance at Uhuru, who was trying to reach the butterfly which was too high for her, "Did you tell her?"

[AustralianChaos]

Kali nodded. "She knows about Tanga...she's eager to talk to him."

Her thoughts then turned to the story Busara relayed. "Do you believe it, Busara? Do you really believe all of that actually happened?"

[TheWhistlerify]

Busara then sighed, it didn;t matter since he wanted to let the two of them meet each other anyway. "It makes sense to me... you know I never trusted that Scar." he said and looked to the west, where Pride Rock was nothing but a distant shape in the horizon

[AustralianChaos]

Kali nodded slowly. She did know of Busara's distrust of Scar, and to a certain degree shared. But the story just seemed...off. Unless it was just her paranoia about Tanga getting to her.

Deciding to give their long lost son the benefit of the doubt, since Busara seemed to think he was okay, she turned back to him. "Is Uhuru able to talk to him...or is he busy?"

[TheWhistlerify]

Busara didn't know whether letting Uhuru meet Tanga now was agood idea, he probably wanted to think abouse everything and let his wounds rest. "I think it would be best if she talks to him later... right now he needs to lay still for a while so the liquid I spread over his wound will have an effect." he said, referring to when he attended to his wounds and spread the liquid on them. He knew that if Uhuru went to talk to him now, he wasn't going to be able to rest at all

[AustralianChaos]

Kali nodded, before turning to her daughter. "You hear that, Uhuru...Tanga needs to rest for the morning, you can meet him later today." She then gave her daughter another loving lick on the head. "Go on, then...go play...just don't disturb the visitors."

She then turned to Busara once more. "So, you talked to Tanga...what's he like? What kind of lion has he become?"

[TheWhistlerify]

Busara slightly smiled to himself as Uhuru ran off, before looking back at Kali. "Well... at first he was a little confused with me... but we talked... I told him why we left and I think he feels better about everything now." he said and sighed. He could not help but wander how will Tanga react to him and his mate once he came back