"You will, she's coming to the Mire," he assures his friend, weight shifting idly. Though, her demeanor becomes one of surprise at his rather casually tossed question, a strange awkwardness befalling the duo that were usually rather comfortable with one another.

He stares back at the striped woman, wondering what was so hard to understand about that question. "Did you want to be mates?" it is said without reservation, as if she simply hadn't heard him, offered context coming as barely an after-thought. "I saw Olive, she said I should ask you," he pauses a moment, "I like you a lot Ghys, but I don't think I'd like to make babies with you." His nose wrinkled a little, like it was wrong.

@Ghyslaine

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Ghyslaine

She is excited to hear that Vio's chosen lioness would be joining the mire. Perhaps, they could become friends? She would like to be friends with the lioness that had somehow brought her friend from wanting many lionesses to just the one. Fallon, her name would be stored in her memory- for later needs.

His question however, dumbfounded her.

Did you want to be mates?

Olive had suggested he ask her?!

What in the fresh hell?

"I.. I don't want to be your mate, @Violarum. You're my friend... my best friend, that would be weird." She said shaking her head. "I don't think I'd want to hav cubs with you either... it would be like... having cubs with my brother- if I had one." She frowned in disgust as she studied her friend- wondering what he would say to that.

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Friend zones were funny places. Though thankfully, both parties were as equally as content to be placed there it seemed. Still, though @Ghyslaine 's response enlightens Vio to the situation a little, he is now a little more distracted by her comments. "Hey, I make good babies," almost like he thought she was personally assaulting his genetics - "I bet Ragna had good cubs."

If only he got to see them. If only she wasn't a Sigrun. After an idle moment, he figures he better tell his friend that. "I accidentally built cubs with a Sigrun..." guiltless, but aware of how Alaric had demonised them. "I didn't know she was a Sigrun, and she kind of... did it all herself," what did that even mean? Was that even possible? Not at all.

She had kind of just, seduced him for no apparent reason though.

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Ghyslaine

There was a funny pit in her stomach at the thought of having cubs with Violarum. The very idea didn't feel right. Sure, she could objectively see that the clay brute was handsome lion, but she had never... looked at him like that. She found him goofy most of the time. A good soul, but goofy. He had become her best friend... and she didn't... no, she didn't want Violarum like that.

Where on earth had Olive gotten such an idea? Was it that weird for a lioness and a lion to just be friends?

When @Violarum speaks, she rolls her eyes at him, raising a paw to bat at him. "I know you would have good cubs- I just don't think we'd make good cubs." She said exasperatedly, but paired with a gentle look.

That look faltered.. when he mentioned making cubs with a Sigrun.. their prides enemy.

"Will she drown them?" She asked, her voice barely a whisper.

"Do we need to rescue them?" She follows up- immediately willing to keep this secret for him- willing to rescue his cubs and never tell a soul who they had come from.

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A tongue slipped over golden lips to lap dryly, almost in distaste. He decided at that point to shrug off the topic and focus his attention on the topic of Ragna - something he was glad to get off his chest. Violarum was awful at keeping secrets, and not being able to share it was exhausting.

"I hadn't thought about it," suddenly he's left with a weird feeling in his gut, having had mostly assumed the 'drowning' business was just talk. "She gave birth at Stygian Shore but I haven't seen her since... will you keep your ear out?" he hoped she was okay. The Sigrun had a large network, surely she was well looked after.

He shrugged then, almost lazily, kind of bothered @Ghyslaine had put concern in his head that wasn't there before. "I don't know, we can't if we don't know where they are," he supposed he would have to make more of a point in finding them. He stood then, stretching his bulky form out lazily.

"Let's go home?"

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She frowns, feeling uneasy at the prospect of her best friends children being drowned. Alas, she nods at @Violarum , and speaks softly. “Of course I will, Vio.” A soft tone, a use of a nickname she doesn’t ever use. But it is his children despite however unwitting a father he may be . She would protect her friends children.

“I’ll help you find them, as well as I can. Ragna- you said was her name? I’ll keep an ear out for her.” She said, and as he spoke of going home, she frowned slightly, and stood moving to attempt to bump her shoulder into his, as she moved to walk alongside him.

She was glad to talk with him, and somehow she felt lighter than she had when she had first started this encounter. She somehow felt less... ruined- even if they had mostly talked about his lioness problems.... she felt at ease being with her friend. He brought her peace.

-exit Ghys-

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