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You wander into the forest again a few days later, after a long and hard search for the dang place you finally managed to pinpoint a location. It's a lot further than you'd usually travel, but you're interested in that primal you saw before, so you don't really mind the trip. You head through the forest again, following the heavy scent of saltwater as the light begins to gradually show through more and more until eventually, you pop out into the clearing again. You find the primal sitting at the edge of the cliff again, looking out towards the sea once more... You make sure your presence is known this time, coughing in that oh so handsome manner that only you can manage to pull off. the primal tilts her head in your direction, looking over her shoulder as you stroll up to her and sit down beside the giant beast, the primal seems nervous to have you so close to her, but she eventually manages to hide the uneasy aura as you start to ask questions. You excitedly inquire about the arrow sticking out of their shoulder, why they're out here so far away from any freshwater sources or food and whether they have a pride or not. The primal seems a little annoyed at your rambling, but she remains calm, simply listening to your hundreds of insensitive and odd questions before sighing softly and turning to face you completely. "My pride lives in this forest, and yes... there is plenty of fresh water and food in there, you just have to look for it." she stated bluntly, she seemed weary today, you noticed, but you wondered why... Perhaps she had been hunting? You took notice of her grimace and decided not to ask any more questions.
After a while of pleasant, or at least what you would assume was, for her at least, silence between the two of you, the primal eventually gets up and walks back into the forest, this time, however, there are two lionesses waiting for her at the entrance. One of them notices you and wanders over, she seems like a younger female, probably half your age but she seemed confident in herself from how she approached you. The adolescent stands proudly as you ask her questions about the primal she greeted before, apparently, the primal is a rather withdrawn person that doesn't converse much with others outside of her pride. You don't get a lot out of the adolescent, as she's too young to really understand most of your questions, or know the answers to what she can understand, and the older female from before is gone now... Well shoot, you guess you won't really learn anything about them after all, and after such a long trip just to see her again to...
You visit a few more times, although not to the cliffside anymore. You go deeper and deeper into the forest instead, finding some of her pride members here and there, asking them questions and getting to know the area a little better than before with each trip. Apparently, as you've finally learned from other lionesses in the pride, this pride is called "Frostfall", the primal's name is Hephaestus and apparently, she was a foreigner to these lands. One of the older lionesses in the pride told you that she was specifically bred to be a mutant, and brought to these lands to be trained as some sort of weapon, probably for that silly thing humans called "war". Apparently, the humans she came with weren't aware that she wasn't a male at the time, so after a few months of training her and finally realizing their cub was a female, they abandoned her here without any family or protection, the arrow was from one of the humans shooting her, thinking that she was going to attack them when she went to chase after their vehicle trying to go home with them again. The reason she sits on the edge of the cliff so often is apparently due to her being homesick, although she really doesn't know which direction "home" is... just that she was brought to these lands by means of ship. The primal is from a place humans called "Greece" apparently, and the word "Chaire" is just their odd way of saying something similar along the lines of "Sup?" or something like that. You're a lion, how are you supposed to know these things? You've certainly never been raised by nor around humans...
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