Kala was once again travailing beyond the general rsting place of her pride-sisters. Though she had left them a few hours ago she had been walking in ever widening circles, and so hadn't actually travailed very far from them, but she had yet to locate the one lion she was looking for.
She had never expected to strike up a friendship with any male, but the unexpected ease which she had found in Gabedi's company had drawn her like a spring in the dry season. Though large, far larger than her, she wasn't scared of him, for how was it possible to be scared of someone so gentle and understanding? Rather, his big frame felt safe and welcoming to her, despite the relative newnes of their aquanticship.
Suddenly she spotted a large dark brown shape and her ears pricked in joy. "Gabedi!" he sweet, clear voice ringing out across the grass as she moved into a trot, her pleasure at finding her friend driving her to greater and greater speed. her sleek, slender figure bounding through the long lush grass.
Andranis