Bagheera sat at a nearby river, resting in the sunlight. He was woken up by splashing sounds, as he saw Bahan on the river bank, hitting something in the water. He said "you know, it's probably not best for you to do that."

The cub ignored him, as Bagheera said "go ahead then. Drown. See if I care."

Bagheera closed his eyes again, before hearing something slap down on the ground in front of him. He opened his eyes to see a small bonefish in front of him, and Bahan smiling proudly. Bagheera shrugged and said "um... well done, I suppose."

Bahan then began chewing on the fish, as Bagheera closed his eyes, letting the cub enjoy her kill. Suddenly, something landed on his face. He opened his eyes to see the half eaten fish, with Bahan pushing it towards him. Bagheera wondered what she was doing, until he realized that she wanted him to eat it.

Bagheera sighed and finished the fish, before almost choking on the food when Bahan jumped on him. Bagheera effortlessly pushed the cub away, making it as clear as possible that he didn't want to play with her. He tried to sleep again, before feeling something grabbing his tail.

After moving the cub away again, he used his claw to draw a long line between himself and Bahan, saying "alright. Let's play a game. It's called Don't Step Over That Line. All you have to do is stay on that end while I stay on this end. But if you pass through the line, you fall into it. Good, let's start... now."

Bagheera slumped down and closed his eyes. Hopefully the cub will now understand to leave me in peace he thought to himself. Bahan looked at the line, wondering what would happen. She dared not step over it, because she didn't want to fall into it. She looked at the end of the line, noticing that it ended just before reaching the river bank.

Bagheera was woken up by the feeling of wet paws on his face, opening his eyes to see Bahan nippling playfully on his ear. Bagheera sighed in annoyance. He saw the footprints past the end of the line, saying "so, it's obvious you've won that game, then."

The sun began to set as Bagheera walked through the jungle with Bahan travelling closely behind him. The cub started to lag behind, before the panther turned to watch her, seeing her yawning loudly. Bagheera then said "um, tiger... over here. Excuse me..."

When the tiger didn't answer, too busy looking at flowers around her, Bagheera gave up and said "Bahan.", instantly getting her attention. Bagheera then added "Bahan. You're getting tired. We'll sleep here. Come on, up this tree."

Bahan walked over to the bottom of the tall tree. The first branch was at least twenty feet above them, before looking to Bagheera. Her large, green eyes seemed to speak their own language to Bagheera, and seemed to be saying "that branch? All the way up there?"

Bagheera nodded and said "yes, that's right. Go on. Up you go."

Bahan pressed her front legs to the tree and kicked her hind legs up, repeating this process in an effort to climb the tree. When she had made it about her own length up, she slid back down, using her claws to stay stuck to the tree. Bagheera chuckled, saying "I say now. Is that all the better you can climb?"

As Bahan continued to struggle, Bagheera pushed her up by her back legs as he used his free paw to climb the tree himself. As he loosely hoisted Bahan up, the cub eventually slipped and fell, grabbing onto Bagheera's back and gripping his fur. This prompted a screech of pain from Bagheera, whose claws were also dug into the bark of the tree.

Bahan scrambled herself up the panther's pack and stepped on his face, allowing Bagheera to push her up onto the branch, before leaping onto it himself. He sighed and held Bahan, saying "now, get some sleep."

As Bagheera slowly nodded off to sleep, Bahan pulled herself closer to him, before the panther used his paw to push her against the tree. Bahan tried to sleep, but found the night air to be too cold.

She sat on the tree silently, watching Bagheera sleep. She was about to pounce on him to wake him up, before she saw something above her. It was a large vine, which moved by itself above her head. Bahan giggled as she jumped trying to get the vine. She jumped a second time, but once again it was out of reach. She jumped higher this time, and pulled the scaly vine up and down.

Suddenly, the other vines on the tree began to move, as Bahan saw the vine move back into the tree. A voice then said "ssssay now... hello, little one... what are you doing ssso high in thissss tree?"

Bahan laughed as she saw the snake coming out of the trunk towards her, as Kaa said "it's getting late... are you tired? Do you wanna go to ssssleep?"

Kaa's eyes became flickering and mutlicolored, hypnotising Bahan long enough for Kaa's coils to wrap around the cub. "Maybe I can sssing you a lullaby?" Kaa said as she began to softly sing. "Trusssst in me... jusssst in me... sssshut your eyesssss... trust in me..."

Bahan began squealing as Kaa's coils wrapped around her neck, waking up Bagheera.

"Oh, must you snore so lou...(gasp) KAA! HOLD IT KAA!"

Bagheera raced over to the snake and struck her across the face, causing Kaa's coils to loosen around Bahan. The snake hissed at Bagheera, who pushed Bahan behind him and pounced, clawing and biting at Kaa's back as the snake snapped her jaws.

Bahan quickly hid in the tree's hollow and covered her eyes as Bagheera narrowly avoided Kaa's jaws. Bagheera clawed Kaa's face, distracting her long enough for him to jump at the lump of coils on the other branch and kick it out of the tree, causing them to pull Kaa down with them.

After watching Kaa slither away angrily, Bagheera panted heavily, before jumping over to the first branch and saying "Bahan? Are you there?"

He heard squealing from inside the hollow, seeing Bahan cowering inside with her paws over her eyes.

Bagheera smiled and said "Bahan. Come out, dear. You're safe now. The snake is gone."

Bahan crawled slowly out of the hollow, and crept over to Bagheera, who raised his paw. Bahan tensed as this happened, wondering what the panther was going to do, before Bagheera placed his paw over her and pulled her closer to him. Bagheera said "there there, little one. You're safe now."

Bagheera relaxed on the branch, holding Bahan close to him as they both drifted off to sleep.