"CHARNA!" Kina came rushing back into the house at a full on run and yelling at the top of her lungs. "Where Are you we gotta talk!"

the catling finally comes to a stop in the office gasping and panting for breath. After colapseing in her desk chair she pulls several files from the drawers and lays them on the desktop to await Char.

"The blind old fools! They let her out!" Frantic searching through the papers finds the one shes looking for which she slides to Char."They were not suposed to let her out yet... not till the cubs were bigger."

The paper contains a description and a list of offenses for a prisoner that was untill recently bound in the dungeon.. first and foremost being arson and destruction of property... the intended target? The nursery at Lions Pride.

"We found that other bad thing Love... And I dont think its gonna be pretty."

Adressing each of Charna's questions as they came up helped the catling to resume her composure just a bit. "First off Love, we are as safe here now as we were before... we are just gonna have to make a few...adjustments."

Gathering up the file with one hand while keeping her eyes on the wife, movements deceptively lazy. Then files returned to their places and cabinets locked again all in silence. And then she motioned char over to the window seat and moved there herself.

"She is my daughters daughter.. and untill the cubs were born by the laws of my homeland she was my heir. After her mother died and her father went mad...when I brought her sisters and brother to live at Kinatal, Shan ran away. She did not trust the temple preists. I had people keeping watch on her but she would often evade surveilence."

A soft sigh accompanies the catlings story "She grew wild and feral... and grew to hate me choosing to think I abandoned her. This is why I understand Art's little Tina so well. She is so like my Shandren. This never changed the fact that she was my heir and whenever she deinged to come home she was treated as such. That may have been my mistake."

"When we went looking for a new house because of the cubs, and I found she was trying to sell Lion's Pride, I was furious. Lions pride was something that my daughter and I worked hard to build. Yes I had avoided the place since Imili died, but I had left the running of things to Kireth and Aubriel. When we came here I scolded Shan, telling her she had no right to do that assoon she would not be my heir."

"Then barely a few weeks later after we had painted the nursery... she slipped in in the dead of night... and lit fire to it." A pause for a drink and a long look at the wife trying to judge her reactions before she continues.

"I dont know what shes going to do Char, and thats what scares me most. I dont think the stable hands have anything to worry about...and Kireths is the safest of us.. Shan would not hurt her sisters. But the cubs... I don't know." The catling fidgeted with the drapes as she spoke, looking out the window now.

"We need to take every precatuion we can think of to make sure she does not have access to them. But we aren't gonna run away. I refuse to be chased from my home again."