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Bigger and bigger she grew. Stronger and stealthier too. With her strange body, too lean for a leopard, too big for a cheetah, she found herself suited to thinks such as hunting and fighting. Her paws were smaller true, but faster. Her body was bigger, but leaner and able to twist in such fascinating ways. But the male who said she should be his little dancer had been too old to cry for mommy when she hit him for it. And she had been merciful, or so the hybrid felt. She had only clawed his nose. Not his stupid eyes.

But unless she garnered a certain approval, than she would not be given the position she desired. A position she deserved on the basis that she had earned it. She was a warrior. And a good one at that. All of her kills on the hunt had been clean and quick. All she needed was to ask the right person. It might help that she was related to them after all. And a gift wouldn't hurt either. Especially since she knew her aunt had been with cub lately. A meal was never unwanted when a mother had little ones. Aiko had been hungry before, desperate as she had been to tend to them when they were still so small.

The broken body of the young, perhaps too young, gazelle she carried in her jaws might not be as impressive as a fat zebra or hippo, but it was a fair catch. And she was young yet after all. Coughing to try clearing her poor throat, Kanie stood at the mouth of the den she knew belonged to the one and only Nyoka. "Aunt." The word was rough when she managed to call it, her tone raspy and ragged. But it was meaningful enough was it not? A word worth the effort of speaking it.