Morphine

Lore:Morphine was always a quiet and yet assertive cub. He followed his duties, he listened to the older lions and always did what was needed. Even though he was smart he never really liked sitting still and listening to the mentors teach so he'd go off and do his own thing. I guess you could say he was a big loner. But one day when he was off on his own near the border of the prides land. He could see the huntresses' coming home looking worn out but they brought much food. He wasn't in a mood to eat so he went back to wandering and carelessly fell off a ledge and landed in front of Hyena cubs. He snarled and puffed his chest but even though his size gave him an advantage, the numbers didn't.
I can easily take these mongrels..don't sweat it Morph... He thought to himself.
“Kill him”. The biggest of the five had said, after huffing and walking off, the other four mangy mutts started to circle Morphine, each snickering with pure evil.
Just as they all charged at him, one after the next sending blow after blow a gruesome snarl came from behind and out came a female adol lion. Morph had been on the ground full of blood and sore. But when his eyes looked up half open he felt too tired and was ready to accept his fate. Closing his eyes his head dropped to the pool of blood and cold hard ground.
After two days pass by Morph wakes up.. “Wh-...where..I..” ,he tried to talk but was still regaining consciousness, his eyes finally opened and he was fully awake. The King looked after him in his den til he healed fully but from that day forward he became the best of friends with his hero. Pondering Mist.
A few years later…
“Look I don’t know why you can’t just support me and what I aspire to do!”
“Well I would if it wasn’t something that endangers you and could kill you! I don’t see why you can’t just stay here with the pride, with us, with..me” ,Morph softened his tone as he stopped in his tracks and put his head down.
Mist turned around quickly and her eyes softened, “Oh Morphie, you know I’d stay..but I just can’t. I have to find my purpose, my will, why I’m here. There is so much more for me out there I just know it.” ,she licked his cheek in reassurance but even that wasn’t enough.
“I can’t lose you Ponpon..but I know I can't be the reason you hold back.”
With a heavy heart and aching soul he nuzzled her and walked off, he’d forever remember that as the day he let her go, but the day he knew he’d love her forevermore.