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Ukene was lounging around, as she was wont to do these days. It seemed that everyone around her was busy with their duties, and the young lioness often found herself left to her own imagination on the occasions (well, not entirely on her own - she tried to keep to well-populated areas of the pride. Even if she did forget it. Quite often. But she did try, for the sake of her mother's worrying and that was all that counted, right?).

Not that she lacked imagination or anything. In fact, most would probably say that she had a bit too much of it, something that often caused her to space out and forget everything around her in favour of her own daydreaming. Or ramble on endlessly. Or get lost on another one of her everyday adventures.

Or bother anyone in the pride with interesting colours on them. Which was what she was intending to now, of course.
She'd spotted the smaller cub some time ago, and had instantly been drawn in by the beautiful purples of his coat. They were awesome; Ukene had never seen anyone with a coat that pretty, or just plain purple. Or at least she didn't think she had, but she might have have and then forgotten about it or something - she wasn't shy about admitting that that might've been the case.

"Heya!" She wasn't shy at all, really. "You're really, really purple." She'd meandered closer, and was currently staring rather fixedly at Iar with her best smile. It tended to come off slightly on the side of creepy, something that hadn't quite occurred to her yet.

"Why, thank you!" Ukene didn't catch the lameness of his reply at all, far too delighted with anyone that liked her coat-colours as much as she did. Or at least pretended to.

"I look like my Mom." She nodded, pausing halfway through to add: "Well, sort of. Kind of. Not really, but a bit. I've got the same eyes at least - or well, not the same eyes, obviously, but the same colour.." She trailed off, slightly lost in thought.

"What were we talking about again?" She asked with a sheepish smile after a few moments of silence.

"There are?" Ukene was looking positively puzzled. She'd never noticed anything of the sort, but then again, her siblings did say she could be a bit slow sometimes. This could very well be one of those times!

"I.. guess so?" She chanced, "Maybe?" It did sound nice for him to have that many sisters, though. That was -- she did a quick headcount -- one more sibling than her! She supposed he was like Utunzo then, the only boy in a litter of girls. Even if his had more of the 'girls' part than theirs' did.

She nodded sagely, having caught up to hear own thoughts; "My brother is the only boy, too. Only he's a bit older than you -" and heaps more awesome, at least in Ukene's opinion, but she wasn't going to say that! She did try to be polite, " - and he only have two sisters, instead of two. That's me and Upenzi."

"Me neither." She looked positively puzzled at this; had anyone ever said something like that to Utunzo? If they had, he'd never shared it with her, that was for sure..

"Maybe.. It's because you'll always be protected?" It was a complete shot in the dark, but it was worth a try. Anything was, in Ukene's mind.

"You are?" She imitated his befuddled blinking, once again lost from the conversation. Though she did suppose that the great heroes from her mother's stories were often males - it just wasn't something Ukene had ever thought about.

"Oh! No, no, no, nooo." That'd be hard to say; "Utunzo is the one who finds me when I get lost. I get lost a lot. Like, a lot." She smiled sheepishly.
"But Upenzi helps me too! They both do. I don't help them much though, at least I don't think I do.. But I love them and that's all that counts, right?"

"And family's important. Really important." She nodded decisively, looking far more serious and determined than she had in the course of their entire conversation.

"Maybe.. maybe it doesn't matter if you're a boy or a girl or the oldest or the youngest, maybe you should just protect family no matter what? Or try, I guess, because you can't always protect them, I mean, if they get attacked by a herd of elephants or something, there's probably not a whole lot you can do, although I don't think elephants attack people all that often and not without cause anyway, that's what my mom said - or was it Upenzi? Maybe someone else - so maybe they deserved it and you should just leave it alone." She stopped, brow furrowed: "I'm confused."

"Yes! I think." She thought for a second before adding: "It sounds like something I'd say anyway, doesn't it?"