@Pistis's fleeing aroma had been muddied around the Hollow's fringes as lion after lion found their way in to see what was going on. Again that feeling of violation pierced through her breast and Siofra's nares flared with harsh exhaled in time with the drum of her feet on the ground. Forcefully she tried to keep the scents from her nose but such task was impossible to do so completely and entirely. And in one deep suck in of breath through her mouth, something akin to a worried choke of her throat around itself, Pistis's perfume came through. "Pistis." She said firmly, soft and daring to be hopeful. Lady of alabaster was still here? Did she have idea where her father went? It was the nearest lead besides her own pure assumption the lion with the most to gain had something to do with it...

The trail worked eastward to the coast and then stretched even further. Outwards towards- Siofra's eyes narrowed as she realized where Pistis had headed. Into the Lagoon prideland's. Her father had scrapped here. It was the realization more than respect that stayed her at the boarder, did it matter at all though why? The clay woman's toes curled against the ground and then her nose reached down to bury in the sand a bit, brush and move it around getting all affirmation Pistis had been through here recently.

( If Ifri's player also wants to assume she came along and followed Sio after the OH thread I'm fine with that! Leaving it vague otherwise. Anyone else welcome! )

He had just left Pistis with Jewel to make sure she was safe and okay. As he was leaving to go find Zagan and Metzli to let them know where the silver woman was now residing in the Lagoon, he came upon a strange sight. That of someone digging her face into HIS sands. A low growl escaped him - tensions were high as now he had a pregnant mother to protect and not just some young cubs and adults. He turned his golden eye to the woman as he moved "Pray to tell why you are digging your face into my sands?" he questioned her under the falling of rain. His eyes scanned the woman before him. " How may the Lagoon help you..?" he said trying to ease off his tension from his actions. But he couldn't help but be on alert.

@Siofra

His face was familiar but Siofra could not fathom his name to save her life. So much of when she saw him, was here last, was not about him at all. Everything else was eons and ages greater in importance that day than who he was and his intentions were never committed to memory. Her peachy eyes steeled and she straightened herself up with one good jerk motion upwards. "Pistis." Siofra did not say the name so much to @Vasilis as she looked beyond him- over his shoulder into the lands if she could let her voice travel so far and find the woman. "I am Siofra Casimir, my mother, where is she?" It was a split second decision to call Pistis the title she never intended to let her own. She was both a young child in absence and longing grasping at familiarity and an intelligent creature who wondered if such connection might play in her favor and get her there so much faster.

Vasilis was not going to let any information about Pistis go through his lips to another ears until he knew what they wanted. So when the young lioness before him stated her name he looked puzzled for a moment, as if to say ' why come here shes not here ' but then when she stated her name was Siofra he took a set of steps forward. His body looked over her as he figured out the best course to take. "....She is safe..." was all he could say in the moment. He waits a few more minutes, watching her face for leads of lies that she was not siofra before speaking again. " She came here to seek refuge. " he wasn't going to say 'to have her cubs' just in case this person was not the child Pistis spoke of, what if this was someone coming after pistis for having Gwyns children? He couldn't risk it just yet.


@Siofra

His advance forwards a few steps was met with a defensive narrowing of her gaze. Usually the calm and woman of neutrally she was still much in the way of inexperience when it came to holding that together in the face of a trauma. The figure head of her life was gone and that was enough to shake stronger women to the core. She tensed a little until @Vasilis's gaze and only loosened up a portion with his words- enough to warrant a glance again past him, although she could see less now that he was nearer to her. "... she's here?" Perfume did not lie. She again asked more absently than normal conversation to the air behind him she spoke a question veiled truth she knew for certain. Why here thought? (Siofra could not pick a more logical place however... perhaps like darts to a board this was just where Pistis ended up?) "My father is missing and his second claims his spot with anger in his heart... Pistis is healthy? Did Drakon try to harm her...?" ...or the cubs? Was he to be trusted with this information? Could Pistis even have hidden it? Would this king hurt her siblings? Would the lions who lived here? Siofra danced between moderation, trust so shaken did not settle firmly into this King's lap.

He watched her watching him, his eyes following the same glaring pool as she did but then his soon relaxed even more. It became entirely neutral as he listened. He knew Gwyn had gone off - dead or alive he didn't care made one less target he had to watch from beyond his borders. Shifting his weight he turned to shift his weight. "She is just fine." he tells her softly. Licking the rim of his lips before blinking his honey-dewed eyes he would speak again "I know. " good riddance he thought to himself.

He shifted against the sands under his toes before stepping back and then forward again making sure his footing was even as he stood. His lips form a line his ears barely at attention as his tail swayed over his ankle and back into the sands below. "She is healthy, and no Drakon has not touched a hair on her head. She came here of her on violations and she is safe here." she was better to be here than at the damn hollows for that matter. Clicking his ear atop his head with an FWAP as it meshed into his golden mane - the man would blink " She has informed me about you - @Siofra, Zagan, and the other children belonging to the Casimir ex-leader. Have they as well as the Casimir king disappeared? or are they nearby?" he asked her. If they were nearby he would go fetch them - if not he would just have to tell Pistis that they too were gone.

Safe and well did not always come hand in hand. Safety did not mean being somewhere you wanted to be either. "Oh good-" Thanks maybe? Unsure of what brought Pistis here, had she been ushered away, dropped off by her father, Siofra wondered this lion's role in it all for the few brief instances of mind and emotion she could spare. She was truly relieved, she had to assume these things were true to get a few moments of brevity and lighten the worries from her chest.

He plunged a knife into her heart. "Ifri is fine." Siofra could confirm nothing more, her voice told sagas of her disappointment to this matter and it broke a support to her foundation. Who else was gone and where did they go? She'd been wrapped up first in her father, then Pistis, and now it dawned that was the cusp of it all. Something deep in her ached an immeasurable pain and she could do nothing more than let it flicker through in subtle notes of her voice, flickers in her eyes. She was young- she kept looking past @Vasilis with longing for something familiar to come out of the Lagoon for her. In a haze she stepped forwards, nose aligned inwards to his home and then her eyes turned back to Vasilis as if she snapped back into the reality of the situation. He was still in between her and Pistis...

'oh good' she stated "I assure you, nothing will harm her here. This place is for those who seek shelter and refuge. " he tells her softly. His deep drawl of a voice echoing from the rain as it started to dull out. "life is fine" he wasn't sure if that was one of the names Pistis had spoken about as he was more attached in looking for Zagan and Metzli. When she stepped forward he moved into her pathway nuh uh uh not yet young lady his eyes danced. "Before you can see Pistis. You must understand my terms." he tells her.

"There is to be no violence within my home. AT ALL. When you are done talking to Pistis you can either hang as a guest, Join the lagoon IF that is what you wish or return back out there." he pointed his nose to beyond her back. Who knew if she had someone else out there waiting on her. " Everyone pulls their weight in the Lagoon, member or not. And if I for any reason feel that you have broken any terms you will be removed from the Lagoon. This is a safe, Neutral, zone for all regardless of their bloodline, gender or reason to be here." he tells the young child. "Do you understand? If so, I'll escort you to Pistis." he tells @Siofra.

Was she supposed to be resting? Yes. Did she care? Well, seeing as she was rapidly speed walking to the border, having smelled Siofra’s scent on the winds, that would be a no.

Pistis continued to make her way towards the border, paws feeling better from the short break she had had. Eyes widening as she saw the girl and Diuris on the borders. “Siofra!” She exclaimed, rushing over to her and giving her a bump to her forehead, careful not to smack into her with the momentum. “Are you alright? Where are your siblings? Is anyone else coming here?” Her mismatched eyes were full of questions, and concern. The other looked fine, but Pistis couldn’t be sure. Truly, how ‘fine’ could Siofra be after her father suddenly left? Pistis knew she was not doing well herself. “Have you seen Gwyn?” She asked, curious but unhopeful. No, how could she be, when his scent had disappeared? Pistis could only hope her other friends and family would drift back to her.

@Siofra @Vasilis

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Ifri had followed @Siofra like a protective specter. The scent of Pistis seemed to be what her sister was after. Perhaps it was a good bet that Gwyn would be with his wife. Ifri did not know the clouded woman well but she did carry the next generation. So her safety and well-being were also a priority.

Along the way Ifri had gotten distracted, falling behind but still not so far as to be to late in aiding Siofra should the girl need it. But once the golden 'ess did catch up, her tri-colored gaze locked onto an equally golden lion; @Visilis. Just as she moved up beside her sister, @Pistis came rushing forward. Dark ears pull forward at the mention of having seen Gwyn. "He isn't with you?" Her question far more curious and disheartened than accusatory.