Gazing into the fire Nisia had dozed off.  Her eyes closed, body stretched out and complacent on the chair, fire going but now on mere kindling.  It was a delicate, yet lazy look of a leopard just about like Rain stretched across the high branch above her lair.  Once again she had a dream, the same dream she had so many times before.  She was a beautiful leopard, much like the ones who claimed companionship with her on their own free will.  She ran through the forest beside them, pumping those long soft legs.  The feeling that was coursing through her, such an adrenaline rush.  Wind in her face, coursing through her fur.  Then it happened as it always does,  with everytime she gets to that point she wakes and stands in a fluid single movement.  Her body ached as if it wanted to do such things and her arms instinctively cross her midrift.  "What does it mean?"<br/>It was in that moment she realized that there was another presence.  Waiting there she knew she could trust Linx and Rain to alert her to a problem.  She moved stealthily and grabbed a dagger then hid well.<br/><br/>Linx's growled a low deep gurtle sound at the intruder.  He sniffed the air and with another growl and glanced at Rain he jumped down in front of Kip. His eyes trained on Kip he crouched and again sniffed him.  Finding him to be of kin the leopard raised its head and met his eyes, a slight tilt of its head and it turned and started towards the entrance of Nisia's Lair.<br/><br/>Rain pounced down on the ground behind him, her long form gliding up behind Kip as if to say try anything and your dead.  Her eyes wearily watching him for any sudden movements.  She would kill him in an instant, it showed in her eyes.  Kinship or not.  There was a very protective air about her and it much had to do with the woman inside the lair.  She trusted no one.  Nisia was the only human she knew with such kindness though she smelled a very vibrant leopard within the woman.<br/><br/>Once Linx entered he walked over by the fire and laid beside it, resting his head on his paws and waiting for them to enter.  Rain simply pushed by Kip and backed by an empty chair crouched and snarled at him before lying by an empty chair.<br/><br/>Nisia was waiting behind the wall near the door to see what her friends brought home.