<blockquote><div><cite>Lilium wrote:</cite>“Oh no thanks. I’ll sleep in my tent tonight with Rak. Though, in the act of us getting to know one another I should spend a bit more time with you two.”</div></blockquote><br/>"Oh... well, if ya say so," Sherani replies. A flicker of disappointment crosses the tigress's face, but vanishes as quickly as it came- anyone not on the lookout for it might mistake the expression for a trick of the light. She briefly considers pressing the issue, but decides it's not worthwhile just yet- Lilium will be plenty safe for the evening with Rak in her tent. Brushing a few leaves into a pile, Sherani makes a gesture of invitation for Lilium to sit on her "cushion."<br/><br/><br/><blockquote><div><cite>Lilium wrote:</cite>“They say every action has an equal and opposing reaction. I can’t help but wonder if the worlds opposing reaction to Lesik is us or if us going after him with create some new opposing reaction.”</div></blockquote><br/>"Reactions, huh? That sounds like something my dad used to tell me when I was a kid." Sherani falls silent for a moment, her eyes reflecting the firelight as she recalls the nature walks of her youth: her father, tall and silent, marching through the wilderness followed at knee-height by a much younger but no less feisty little tigress. "He'd take me out to a lake, and we'd toss stones from the shoreline out into the middle. I always loved the big ones, 'cuz they made the best ripples- they'd make a really big one, plus all the little ones where the water splashed. Then they'd hit the shore and bounce back with a bunch of little ripples- sometimes those'd just hit each other and stop, or join back into a bigger one if they hit just right." The shifter gives a chuckle, smiling warmly as she gazes off into the distance.<br/><br/>"Dad said anything we do is like throwing a rock in the water," she continues. "You can throw a pebble, and nobody notices. Or, you can throw a big rock, and make a big splash everyone can see. Either way, the lake's gonna smooth itself out sooner or later. The only difference is how far your ripples go before that happens."<br/><br/>"Lesik's been chuckin' some pretty big rocks around lately, and makin' a whole lotta ripples on the water in Midova. I dunno if we're the first ripples, or the ones bouncing back, but I bet we're not alone- somebody else out there is gonna find out what's up and come looking for Lesik, just like us. All we gotta do is keep movin' and follow our instincts, an' we'll get where we need to be to fix things."<br/><br/>The tigress pauses a moment, then laughs and tosses another log on the fire. "Geez, listen ta me sound like I know what I'm talkin' about. I probbly got half of that wrong."