Seeing Neru break down so suddenly almost hurt Tanga physically. what could he do? The situation this lion was in was so similar to his own that it was scary. He sympathised with the lion, and felt his distrust slowly beginning to dissapate. He made no move to comfort Neru...his shyness simply would not allow for any physical contact with any other lion...but he did try to offer the lion an understanding, comforting smile.
That smile vanished in an instant when his mind finally registered the full implications of what Neru said. "Mufalfa?!" he repeated disbelievingly, looking at Neru in wide-eyed shock, feeling almost certain that if the others had not paid him much attention, that they would now. "Are you sure that was his name?"
The implications of this hit Tanga hard. Neru had lost his parents to Mufalfa...and they had just escaped him, leaving Imani's sister in his clutches. But he knew, with Mufalfa's split-personality problem, that the lioness could very well still be alive. This was a chance to rescue Imani's sister that he simply could not pass up.