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"Rejoice, for the end is nigh! Repent, for the Great Lion's back is to the pride!" the black lioness moved through the pride, calling out her joyous discovery. Every lion she came near was someone who had to hear the word, every person someone who needed to know! It didn't matter to her that few wanted to listen, it mattered even less that she looked like she'd completely forgotten how to groom herself. In fact, she'd begun acquiring adornments here and there - mostly vertebrae. The small ones she had slipped onto her toes, making her every step clack against any rocks. The larger ones had been slipped onto her tail. Between those, her scruffy fur, and wide open eyes, it was hardly surprising that even Nyeusi's closest relatives seemed to be avoiding her.

It didn't matter to Nyeusi that people were pulling away from her with expressions ranging from disgust to confusion, to amusement and everything in between. If one lion left, she simply moved on to the next.

Then she unexpectedly ran out of lions. This brought the black female up short for a moment and she looked around. Aha! A white male with purple wing markings. He was vaguely familiar, so he'd been around for a while. Maybe his whole life. Whatever. Nyeusi wasn't someone who made it a point to know every Mwezi member by name and face, so there were a lot of people she barely even knew by sight. This was one of those.

"Have you heard?" she demanded, going straight up to the male. "Have you heard the Word?" Blue eyes shone, but probably not with sanity.

"The Word!" Nyeusi repeated, waving one bone-clad paw in his face for emphasis. "It is our hope, our desire, our salvation!" she informed the older lion.

It was clear to the her that the white male had not heard the Word at all. But that was okay. She'd be happy to explain it to him. After all, he was still standing here, wasn't he? And if the expression on his face wasn't joy, it wasn't any form of rejection and that was good enough for her.

"Rejoice, for the end is nigh!" she cried, repeating the mantra she'd created. "Repent, for the Great Lion's back is to the pride!"

"The Great Lion has turned His back on the King, and thus on the pride," the lioness answered promptly. She even managed to sound saner when she said it, which was saying something. "The King thought to make the Great Lion bend to his will by subverting the slaves of the low class, but the Great Lion is beyond all that. He will not aid the pride while the usurper reigns, and things will get worse until the King is dethroned. The end is nigh!"

As Nyeusi's explanation wound down, her tone gradually ramped up the chaos and insanity until she was shouting into the white lion's face.

"But it's the Truth!" the female shouted right back, blue eyes wide as she took another step towards the white lion to stand right in in his face. "You cannot deny the Truth, just as the King cannot ignore it, no matter how much he'd like to!" she informed him loudly.

"This is the Word! We must spread it to the whole of the pride!" Nyeusi declared, taking a step back again and waving her paw for emphasis. "Think of how many live here, and how many have yet to be freed by hearing the Word!" And with someone to help her, things would go much more quickly and they could be rid of Shangyue that much sooner.

"Wonderful!" Nyeusi beamed a smile that would have been a lot more attractive if its wearer had paid any attention to her appearance. As things stood, it served to further emphasize that she might not be entirely present in reality as the male knew it.

Turning so that the white lion was at her side, leaning on him slightly, and curling her tail around him, the black lioness began to forcefully steer her newfound comrade to the next nearest lion.

"We'll spread the Word to the entire pride! To the world! From now until the King is King no longer!"