[PRP] Nyesha & Jani

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Of the whole family, Jani was the lion who was most rarely in the den. As an adolescent, she had a great deal more freedom than she had as a juvenile, and the green lioness used and abused it to the fullest. However, with what she'd heard now, she was sitting outside the den, waiting for Nyesha to get back.

Finally, after an interminable wait, she saw her sister coming up to the den. Jani boundedup with excitement and ran to meet the other lioness.

"Nyesha! Is it true? Is it really? Will I be an aunt?"  

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Jani grinned back at her sister. Oh this was so exciting! So what if they were a little young for it...that was what growing up was all about, right? And this was really exciting, to be an aunt!

"Well, everyone in the family knows...but no one else as far as I know, unless if you said something." Her grin spread even wider, blue eyes dancing. "You know...Mother threatened to geld Amani if he got a girl pregnant and told me that she'd do the same to any lion foolish enough to get so close to me."  

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Well healers were the most logical people for Nyesha to talk to about anything in this pride. So it was no surprise she'd mentioned her pregnancy to them. She did find it interesting to hear that the male in question didn't seem to be a part of the pride - had Nyesha warned him about the disease? Well, that was between Jani's sister and the father of her children, but it was something to worry about later.

"Weeeeell..." Jani replied, stretching out the word as she tried to think how exactly their blood mother had reacted to the news.

"I don't think she's as upset about it as Mother...but I don't think she's as happy about grandchildren as she could be," the older lioness told the younger slowly.  

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Normal? That's what this was about? Jani personally didn't see what was so abnormal about Nyesha's life that had made her sister so desperate to do something like getting pregnant, but hey, sisters could be weird. Wasn't that what Amani said a lot? It probably sucked to be him, the only male in the whole family.

"I think they're worried about you," Jani added. "But, you must be feeling better, right?"

The green lioness knew as well as any pridemember that there was no real recovery from the disease, just better days and worse ones. But she desperately hoped that the fact that her sister had managed to get healthily pregnant meant that she'd be around for a good long time.  

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"That's good to hear!" Jani latched onto the good news. She wasn't desperate - yet - but she much preferred something positive in her life. The green lioness then paused to examine her sister's body in answer to her question.

"Well...I guess it looks like you've put on a bit of weight, but I don't know that I'd notice if I didn't know already." Jani wasn't the most observant of subtle changes in people, she saved her attention for other things.  

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Jani smiled back at her sister. "Obvious or not, let's get something to eat. You're eating for at least two now!" Let the future worry about Nyesha's health. For now, all she needed to know was that her sister was happy and that the green lioness would be an aunt in the very near future.

Life was pretty good!