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Thuraya had gotten up early and was watching the pride. The young lioness was beginning to think more and more about her future and what life was going to become for her. Soon she would be leaving her father's harem and be placed in one of someone else. Thuraya wasn't sure how she felt about leaving her father's harem and being a banu in someone else's, it was an odd thing for the young cub to figure out.

Deciding she didn't want to think to hard about it the cub got up and began to wonder around the pride, perhaps today she would meet someone new, make a friend, have an adventure, anything really would be better than laying about all afternoon.

As Thuraya wondered she was happy to see that she had found one banu sitting of by herself. perfect she thought, it seemed like a much less intimdating thing to approach a single lioness then a group who were talking to each other.

Thuraya crept slowly towards the lioness. The cub was trying to work on acting 'lady' like and she knew that rushing towards someone was what a cub would she needed to act more like an adult.

"Hello" Thuraya greeted the other as politely as she could.

Awide grin spread along the cubs face, "Yes" she answered quickly to the lioness's firs question. She was overjoyed that the lioness was so willing to have her come sit with her, she was worried that she wouldn't want a cub bothering her, sometimes adults were like that.

"My name is Thuraya. I am Achal's daughter." she told the other lioness proudly. Thuraya loved her father a great deal, and the young cub actually worried about the day that her father would give her to another Pad, she knew that her father woud chose nothing but the best for her but at the same time she had seen some mean pads in the pride and it made the litter one worry.

"What is your name?" Thuraya inquired... she knew that she had seen the lioness around but she couldn't recall ever hearing her name, then again, she didn't know many other of the lions names in the pride, she tended to stick around her family.

Thuraya smiled "I know exactly how you feel.... " the cub trailing of slightly. She watched the members of the pride that she could see, some of them sitting in small groups watching very young cubs play, others bring kills home. The males conducting what ever business it was that they did.

"I could be your friend?" Thuraya said cautiously afraid that she was stepping out on a limb that would snap beneath her feet. It wasn't often that the cub felt comfortable enough to say such a thing to someone but really she needed to start making friends, and this lioness seemed pleasent enough even if there was an age difference between them.

Hmmm where to start, "Well, to start with I am a twin, there is actually two sets of twins in my litter." Thuraya chirped. "My twin is a boy, and the other twins are both boys." she smiled.

"I have a ton of siblings there was eight cubs in my litter, and my daddy had brought home two other lion cubs and three leopan cubs before I arrived." Thuraya said in a matter of factly tone, it had taken her awhile to figure out where each cub fit in in her family.

"I was in the first litter that was born to one of my daddy's banu's though, the other cubs are outsiders but daddy brought them back here. But soon another litter will be here my mom who is a leopard is pregnant." Thuraya nodded lightly.

"What about you what is your harem like." in the mind of the little cub the harem you belonged to was who you were, she didn't understand the outside world at all nor did she really want to.

Thuraya nodded as she listened to the other banu, from what she could tell it did sound like most other harems or at least what she though harems were like, she had to admit she knew nothing about anything but her family.

"I am scared to be given to my pad when I get older, though I know the day will probably come sooner then I am ready for it." she offered a tiny smile, it was hard for her to admit it, she had told her daddy once and he had assured her that he would let no harm come to her, and she did trust him, but still to the little cub there was so many unknowns.

The cub sat there silently after saying that looking into the pride, she was trying to make sense of a world she didn't know much about.

Thuraya smiled she appreciated the older lioness giving her some comforting words. It was possible though Orah would know best what was going on she after all was an adult who would know better then her how it was to belong to a pad.

"My daddy does love me a lot, he tells me all the time." Thuraya said with a large smile on his face. "I guess I am jsut worried cause I don't know much about the other males other then my father, and I want to make sure that I never insult my father by dishonoring his name." she said the last part very matter of factly.

Thuraya thought for a moment, "No no I am sure that my parents are ok with me. I just have to make sure that I don't wonder too close to the pride's edges, that would get me in a lot of trouble. It isn't safe for a young cub like me outside the pride's lands." she told Orah.

"But I guess you know the dangers of the outside don't you?" Orah was fairly certain that the lioness hadn't been born in this pride, and she had instead been brought her by something else. She turned and looked towards teh older lioness as if to find out if her thoughts about the outside lands.