Vitani opened her blue eyes as the sun rose over the horizon. The young lioness stretched as she looked over the edge of pride rock where she decided to sleep last night. Life had been very boring ever since they moved over to the pride lands. Vitani missed the old days of fighting, the adrenaline from doing her mother's bidding, and the arguments she used to have with Nuka. What she didn't miss however was the termites, the starvation, the snarl of disappointment she constantly heard from her mother, and the dry land. Kovu had become the king after both Simba and Nala had died of old age several months ago. Kovu had three cubs, and Vitani taught each and everyone of them how to fight. Kovu and Kiara were very opposed to it, but Vitani knew it would come to use to the cubs one day.
Vitani sighed in content as she laid down again, knowing the cubs would be the first ones awake, and that they'd bound out the den any minute for a story.