DA and Flare layed side by side under the black sky, just talking. Flare had asked DA about her old pride.
"There were over 10 lionesses and the 2 males were my father, and his brother," DA explained. Flare looked at her in surprize.
"You don't have most males? Why not?" Flare must have thought every pride must be all lions.
"Haven't you seen other prides? There are maybe one or two, or the rare three, males in each pride. The more female there are, the better chance cubs will be born. And the better change of that, the more lions will be born. There are usually 2 or more cubs born around the same time. The 2 cubs at promised if they are male and female" DA explained, she felt like a mother explaining to her cub the way she had to tell him.
"I get it, the more linos the stronger the pride so 2 will be promised and- wait a second! That means you were promised too!" Flare jumped at his own discovery.
DA sighed is displeaser. "Yes, I was. It was a cub name Jurda. He was tan and had a small golden mane. He wasn't the best guy to haug with, but... he was my friend, by betrothed."
Flare's ears went down and his eyes drooped. "I was promised... just to any lioness that passed... My father had told me to grab a passing lioness who was on a hunt or alone, I never liked the idea of a non-love marriage. I thought I would find someone, someday and not end like my mother. Then I found you. DA, I love you."
DA purred and rubbed her side closer to his. "I love you too." They purred together and fell asleep on the short grasses.
DA woke and found that Flare wasn't at her side. She wasn't even on the same grass she was on last night. She stood startled and looked at a crowd of sleeping lions around her. It was a circle of them, she couldn't escape it. She looked above them and saw Flare was in the same problem.
They made eye contact and seemed to speak in each other's minds.
"What happened?"
"I'm not sure, maybe my father did this."
"What about my mother, she would hate this."
Suddenly all the lions woke as Flare's father, Jura, walked in. He when stright to Flare and slashed his face. 3 long scars laid on the left side of his face. He spoke words DA couldn't hear but he shouted them angerly. He turned and padded towards DA. She shook in fear as he came close to her.
"There is a reason for some rules, and you must follow them!" DA didn't remember any rules but felt a sudden chill of blood as her nose and muzzle where stabed with sharp claws. DA screamed and backed away from him. He couldn't... he shouldn't... not as her mother's husband... It happened and no matter what DA tryed to erase, it can back every time she tryed to sniff, snezz or even breath.
How was it?