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00:02The night before my wedding, my husband slept with Hyena.
00:06I was alone in our new den, doing the final touches.
00:09I pawed open the deepest layer of bedding, and I found them.
00:13Dried stains.
00:14Coarse hairs.
00:16Gray with black spots.
00:17Hyena.
00:19Tira.
00:19I shifted to human form, standing barefoot on the bedding.
00:24I pinched the hairs between my fingers and brought them to my nose.
00:28Her scent.
00:30No mistake.
00:31I tossed the hairs away, shifted back to lioness.
00:41Ripples spread across the water's surface.
00:43I waited for Jago's face to appear, but the reflection wasn't his mane.
00:47It was another face.
00:49Round ears, green eyes, Tira.
00:51She shifted to human form, wearing an eye livery ring on a cord around her neck.
00:55That's a really comfortable nest, she said.
00:57I tested it for you.
01:00Where's Jango?
01:01I asked.
01:03Tira smiled.
01:05She stirred the water with her hand.
01:07Then Jango's voice drifted out.
01:09Tira, come lick my back.
01:13Tira looked at the water.
01:14Tira looked at the water, looked at my face.
01:16The groom's not bad either, she said.
01:19Tested him for you, too.
01:21The water went dark.
01:23I collapsed on the boulder.
01:25Moonlight on my fur.
01:27I don't know how long I lay there.
01:30Eventually, I went back to the den, dragged out all the carefully laid grass, acacia pluff, lavender, and shoved it
01:39all off the rocks into the ravine below.
01:42I clawed deep gouges into the boulder.
01:46Then I bit through the knot of the wedding charm hanging at the entrance.
01:49I sent word to all our families and friends.
01:53Wedding canceled.
01:54Then I turned off the water link and went back to my own den.
01:59I drank fermented monkey bread fruit wine and slept till morning.
02:05I woke to thunderous roaring outside my cave.
02:09Jago stood at the entrance with his brothers.
02:12They were all in lion form.
02:15Manes braided, coated with resin, gleaming in the morning light.
02:20Jango wore the brightest red parrot feathers around his neck, the groom's mark.
02:24The prey he was carrying had been crushed into pulp, blood dripping everywhere.
02:29He shifted to human.
02:32His hair a mess.
02:34He's clearly just woken up.
02:36And his eyes went red.
02:39Cora!
02:41Have you lost your damn mind?
02:43The twisted look on his face was so ridiculous.
02:46That laugh couldn't help but laugh.
02:48That laugh pushed him over the edge.
02:51He slammed the pulpsed carcass onto the ground and roared at me.
02:55Do you know what today is?
02:57I sat up on my grass bed.
03:00The old animal held slipped down to my waist.
03:03I ran my fingers through my hair and said,
03:07Voice raspy,
03:09I told you,
03:10Wedding's off.
03:11We're done.
03:12Jango's eyes were bloodshot.
03:14He squeezed them shut, grinding his teeth.
03:18Come with me right now.
03:20I'll pretend nothing happened.
03:26I forgive you.
03:28I glanced at his brothers behind him.
03:30They all had that look, enjoying the show.
03:35I stood up, tied the old hide tighter around my waist,
03:40and said coldly,
03:43Jago,
03:44you're the one who messed up.
03:46You really want to do this here?
03:48In front of everyone?
03:50Talk about you and the hyena queen?
03:52Get lost.
03:54We're done.
03:57Jago froze.
03:59His face went through about five different expressions.
04:02That arrogant fire got doused real quick.
04:05His eyes started darting around,
04:07unable to meet mine.
04:09But he didn't leave.
04:11His voice went soft.
04:13You've got it wrong.
04:14My fault.
04:15I should have told you sooner.
04:16Fight me.
04:17Claw me.
04:18Whatever.
04:20But today's our big nay.
04:22The whole Savannah's watching.
04:25Stop making a scene and come with me, okay?
04:28He shook his head,
04:29gave a bitter smile,
04:30looked so sincere,
04:32like I was the one being crazy.
04:34One of Jago's good brothers
04:36shifted to human form
04:37and opened his mouth.
04:39Sister-in-law,
04:40can't you sort this out later?
04:41Let's just do the ceremony today.
04:43Wait here.
04:46I turned back into the cave,
04:48finger-combed my hair,
04:49tied it back with vines,
04:51put on a clean hide skirt,
04:52and came back out.
04:54No red clay bridal paint.
04:56No jewelry.
04:58Jango asked why I wasn't going to the river
05:00to bathe first,
05:01why I wasn't putting on makeup.
05:03I didn't answer.
05:06I didn't answer.
05:06His face darkened,
05:08but he couldn't do a thing about it.
05:10The wedding was under the baobab tree.
05:13When I got there,
05:14I saw it was basically just
05:16Jango's family and friends.
05:17None of my siblings.
05:19None of my people.
05:20I'd already told them last night.
05:22Seeing me show up so casually,
05:24the guests started murmuring.
05:26A few old lionesses shifted to human form
05:28and started whispering in shrill voices.
05:30How can she throw such a tantrum
05:31over something so small?
05:32So entitled.
05:34Exactly.
05:35All these guests waiting.
05:36And she pulls this.
05:38If she didn't want to marry him,
05:39she should have said so earlier.
05:41Jango's mother, Lady Brown,
05:43came up to me and sat me down
05:44in the main seat.
05:45She stayed in human form,
05:47reached over to smooth my hair.
05:49Silly child.
05:51We couldn't reach you on the water link last night.
05:54We were so worried.
05:55And said gently,
05:56Did Jango hurt you?
05:58Tell me.
05:59I'll deal with him.
06:01Before I could answer,
06:03Someone arrived.
06:05Tira.
06:06New pay walk.
06:12She was wearing a spotted hyena hide dyed red.
06:16Madla root dye.
06:17Red as blood.
06:19Behind her came three hyena guards,
06:22all in human form,
06:23moving in perfect step.
06:25Her face was painted with flower juice
06:27and charcoal ash.
06:29Elaborate patterns running from the corners of her eyes
06:32all the way to her lips.
06:35She wore bone heels.
06:37Every step went click, click.
06:41Hope I'm not too late,
06:42she said,
06:43voice like sand and blood mixed together.
06:46Congratulations on the wedding, Cora.
06:48Tira walked to the main seat and sat down next to me.
06:52When she sat,
06:54something around her neck caught the light.
06:58An ivory ring.
07:03Exactly like the one around my neck.
07:05That design.
07:06I'd carved it by hand with stone tools.
07:08It took me a month,
07:10polishing it with sandstone slabs.
07:12There were only two in the world.
07:14One around my neck.
07:15One I'd placed in Jango's hands myself.
07:19Now it hung around the hyena queen's neck.
07:23My fingers clenched the hem of my hide skirt.
07:28Jango and the baboon Shaba walked over together.
07:35The bride's red fur coat is really pretty.
07:40Oh, I'm not the bride today.
07:46Don't mind me, Cora.
07:51He saw Tira.
07:53A flicker of panic crossed his face.
07:58But he quickly looked away.
08:00Why aren't you getting ready?
08:05Jango, watch your tone!
08:10Yeah, Cora's just a little upset.
08:13Tira chimed in.
08:14You should sweet talk her.
08:19That made Jango even angrier.
08:23He shifted to lion form and roared at me.
08:28Cora!
08:29There's a limit to your stubbornness!
08:32Go!
08:34Now!
08:38Tira stood up and patted Jempa's shoulder.
08:41Don't be mad.
08:42Cora will go get ready.
08:44I'll help you greet the guests.
08:46You might as well just marry him yourself.
08:48I said.
08:50I stood up.
08:51Raised my voice so every guest could hear.
08:54Sorry, everyone.
08:56You came all this way for nothing.
08:59Eat.
08:59Drink.
09:00Be.
09:01Married.
09:03But Jango and I?
09:05Officially done.
09:07As of now.
09:08You're all witnesses.
09:13Jango shifted back to human.
09:16Glaring at me.
09:18Are you done?
09:22Tira looked genuinely worried.
09:27Cora.
09:28Don't misunderstand.
09:30I was just offering to help with the guests.
09:34You've done way more than help with guests.
09:37I said.
09:41Didn't you already test out the bed?
09:43For me?
09:46Something flickered deep in Tira's eyes.
09:49Satisfaction.
09:51But she switched it out fast for a hurt look.
09:57I slapped her across the face.
09:59The whole place went dead silent.
10:02Four bloody scratches appeared on Tira's face.
10:05She froze for a second.
10:06Then her eyes changed.
10:11The three hyena guards behind her all stepped forward at once.
10:15Low rattling growls in their throats.
10:20Jango panicked.
10:22He stepped in front of Tira.
10:25No.
10:26He blocked her.
10:31Cora!
10:32Are you insane?
10:33He roared at me.
10:36Tira finally let the tears fall.
10:39She buried her face in Jango's chest.
10:42But her eyes, over his shoulder, stayed locked on mine.
10:45There was rage in that look.
10:47And triumph.
10:48Lady Brown moved fast.
10:50She lunged forward and yanked Tira out of Jango's arms.
10:57Tira, this is a family matter.
11:01You don't belong here.
11:03Now.
11:04Tira looked at Jango.
11:06He looked away.
11:09She looked at me.
11:12Then she smiled.
11:13She shifted to hyena form.
11:15Mouth splitting all the way to her ears, rows of yellow teeth.
11:22She turned and walked away.
11:28But Jango wasn't done.
11:32He shifted to lion and roared at me.
11:35Happy now!
11:37You ruined the wedding!
11:40No other lion in this world will want you.
11:45Are you just in world, you crazy bitch?
11:50I slammed my palm on the table.
11:55You're right.
11:57It's off.
11:58But today, I'm teaching you a lesson.
12:03I walked to the stone wall and traced Tira's name in the sand.
12:08The wall lit up.
12:10Last night's images filled the entire rock face.
12:14That's a really comfortable nest.
12:17I tested it for you.
12:20Where's Jango?
12:21The groom's not bad either.
12:24Tested him for you too.
12:26And in the image, Jango's voice from deep inside the cave.
12:30Tira, come lick my back.
12:38The images faded.
12:40The wall went dark.
12:41Silence.
12:42Mr. Brown stood up, walked to Jango, and slapped him across the face.
12:50Jango staggered.
12:52Tears ran down the old man's face.
12:56Jango, I said, voice rising from somewhere deep in my chest.
13:01The one who betrayed this marriage was you.
13:05You and the hyena queen.
13:07In our marriage bed.
13:10My eyes started blurring.
13:14I shook my head.
13:15Shook the tears off.
13:17Jagen's lips trembled.
13:18Nothing came out.
13:20I didn't look at him again.
13:21I only said to Jango's parents and the guests.
13:24I'm sorry for everything that happened today.
13:26Jango and I are done.
13:28Please forgive my rudeness.
13:30Then I turned and walked away.
13:33And in the image, Jango's voice from deep inside the cave.
13:37Tira, come lick my back.
13:41The images faded.
13:44The wall went dark.
13:45Silence.
13:48Behind the baobab tree, I ran into Tira leaning against the trunk.
13:54She hadn't left.
13:55She'd been waiting for me.
13:58So Cora's not getting married today.
14:01Where are you off to?
14:02She asked.
14:03I didn't answer.
14:04She kept going.
14:05Cora, a plain, ordinary lioness like you should just find some plain, ordinary lion.
14:13Jango was never someone you could reach.
14:15I couldn't reach him?
14:17I repeated.
14:19Isn't that the truth?
14:22Cora needs to know her place.
14:23I stepped forward and yanked the leather cord off her neck.
14:29The ivory ring fell to the ground.
14:32I carved that ring with my own hands.
14:35It doesn't belong on you.
14:37Jango gave that to me!
14:39Tira lunged for it.
14:41I bent down and used my toe to nudge the ring into a pile of fresh dung.
14:47Watching her face, I said flatly,
14:49Trash belongs in the trash heap.
14:51If you want to dig through shit for food, be my guest.
14:56Same goes for Jebba.
15:00I gave her one last look and walked into the grass.
15:04You think you've won?
15:07Tira's voice followed me.
15:09I didn't look back.
15:10Before dawn the next day,
15:13Jango came back.
15:14He stood outside my cave.
15:17No brothers.
15:18No feathers.
15:20Alone.
15:22Two enormous black circles under his eyes.
15:25The moment I came out,
15:26he shoved a freshly killed wildebeest towards me.
15:29Cora, I brought you something fresh.
15:32Still warm.
15:34I looked at him calmly.
15:37Suddenly, none of it meant anything.
15:42I pushed him.
15:43He didn't move.
15:44I tried to go back into the cave.
15:47He stuck his hand in the rock crack to block me.
15:49Cora, please.
15:50It's all my fault.
15:53I was wrong.
15:54Give me one more chance.
15:56It was Tira who seduced me.
15:58You know I only love you.
16:01Cheating is cheating.
16:02I said.
16:04And you have the nerve to blame someone else?
16:07My calm unsettled him.
16:09But you disgust me.
16:11I said.
16:11One word at a time.
16:14Jango froze.
16:15Then came the hot, humiliated explosion.
16:18He shifted to lion, roaring at me.
16:22Then his voice went soft again.
16:28I was just led astray for a moment.
16:30I shook my head.
16:32After all that, what you can't let go of, is it me?
16:37Or my family's water source?
16:40Jenga's face went white.
16:42Your pride has had it easy all these years because of our shared water agreement.
16:49If it weren't for my father taking pity on you, your dried up territory wouldn't survive a single dry season.
16:57Jago, what I give, I can take back.
17:01With interest.
17:04Every word landed like a claw.
17:07Jago's face drained completely.
17:10His lips trembled.
17:12Nothing came out.
17:14I didn't look at him again.
17:16I turned and walked into the savannah.
17:19Behind me, Jango's voice came out.
17:21Shredded.
17:22Like it was claw from the bottom of his throat.
17:26Cora!
17:27I didn't look back.
17:30A few days later, Lady Brown found me.
17:34Jago is going to jump off the cliff.
17:38Can you come?
17:40I looked into her eyes.
17:42Something in them made my heart soften.
17:47I sighed.
17:52I went.
17:53Jago stood at the cliff's edge.
17:55He was in lion form, mane blowing back in the wind like a broken flag.
17:59His front paws had already crept over the edge.
18:04Pebbles crumbled beneath him.
18:06Lady Brown was sobbing nearby, barely standing.
18:09Mr. Brown kept sighing, pounding his thigh with his fist.
18:12Tira was there too.
18:13She wasn't crying.
18:14She was just watching Jango coldly.
18:17The corner of her mouth curled in something.
18:19Half smile, half something else.
18:21Jago saw me.
18:24His eyes went red instantly.
18:30Cora.
18:31If I jump, will you forgive me?
18:33I didn't answer.
18:35Cora, just tell him yes.
18:37I'm begging you.
18:41I'll get on my knees if I have to.
18:43I steadied her.
18:44Fine.
18:45I forgive you.
18:46At that point, hate didn't matter anymore.
18:53That's when Tira spoke up.
18:55You believe her?
18:57As long as you're alive, she will never forgive you.
19:00You've got nothing now.
19:03No water.
19:04No territory.
19:05No her.
19:08What's the point of living?
19:10Jango's eyes went bloodshot.
19:12He looked at Tira.
19:14Looked at me.
19:15Took another step toward the edge.
19:17More pebbles fell.
19:19Jango.
19:20Do you want to know why I cut off the water?
19:24Jango turned his head.
19:26It's not just because of you and Tira.
19:28If that were all, I'd have broken up with you.
19:31But I wouldn't have cut off your whole pride's survival.
19:34It's because of Tira.
19:37She sold your pride's hunting routes to the rogue pride in the north.
19:42If we kept sharing water, my pride would get dragged into it too.
19:47Sooner or later, those rogues would follow the water straight to our territory.
19:50I was telling the truth.
19:53I found out after.
19:55Tira didn't just want to steal Jango.
19:58She wanted to destroy everyone.
20:00Jango's face went pale in a whole new way.
20:02Was it you?
20:03Tira's face finally changed.
20:05She opened her mouth, but it was too late.
20:08The guards, Jango's family guards, Mr. Brown had placed them there, had been waiting for this moment.
20:13The split second Jango got distracted.
20:16Two male lions from the side and pulled him back from the edge.
20:19They hit the ground rolling.
20:21Jango struggled for a second, then went limp.
20:23Mr. Brown walked over, crouched down, and patted Jenga's back.
20:27Once.
20:28Twice.
20:29Didn't say a word.
20:30Jenga lay on the ground, staring at the sky.
20:33Empty eyes.
20:34I turned to leave.
20:37Tira moved.
20:38She came from the side.
20:40Fast.
20:40She'd shifted to Hyena, all four paws digging in.
20:44Cora!
20:44Die!
20:45I wasn't ready.
20:46Her weight slammed into me.
20:47I fell backward toward the cliff.
20:49At the last second, Jango launched.
20:51He hit Tira from the side, sent her tumbling.
20:55I felt the rock sliding under me.
20:58Then a guard grabbed my scuff and hauled me back.
21:03I was getting dragged by a lion's teeth.
21:06But I didn't care about the pain.
21:08I struggled to turn over.
21:12My wrist twisted when I braced myself.
21:15Tira was pinned on the ground, still struggling.
21:19She shifted back to human.
21:21Hair wild.
21:22Face paint smeared.
21:23Still screaming.
21:24Let me go!
21:25I'll kill her!
21:26That bitch!
21:27I have nothing left!
21:30They dragged her away.
21:31Her voice got smaller and smaller, finally swallowed by the wind.
21:35I lay on the ground, staring at the sky.
21:38Lady Brown came over, crouched beside me, stroked my hair.
21:43Her hands were shaking.
21:45Cora, I'm so sorry.
21:48I shook my head.
21:50Not her fault.
21:53Later I found out, Tira had poisoned Jango's water.
21:57Not lethal, just herbs that clouded the mind, mixed into fermented monkey bread wine.
22:03Jango drank it for days.
22:04That's why he was so out of it.
22:06That's why he stood on that cliff for so long.
22:09Tira's plan, let Jango jump.
22:11Then she'd jump too, so they could be together forever.
22:14She said this herself.
22:15During questioning.
22:20She said it with a smile.
22:23I'd also sold my own pride's hunting roots to the rogue northern pride.
22:27In exchange for them helping me cut off Jega's water at the start of dry season.
22:32Push Jega's pride into panic.
22:38Make Jega depend on my more.
22:41What she didn't expect was that those same roots would expose my family's water source.
22:45Her hyena pack abandoned her.
22:51Her little sister took her place.
22:54She was exiled.
22:56Alone.
22:57No pack.
22:58No allies.
23:00On the savannah, that's worse than death.
23:03His pride splintered.
23:04Some followed his brother north.
23:06The rest scattered across the savannah.
23:08But the water was gone.
23:09The territory was gone.
23:10The allies were gone.
23:12He stayed alone in that dried up territory.
23:15Wasted away to nothing.
23:17I never saw him again.
23:20I found a capable deputy to handle the pride's daily affairs.
23:24The son of my father's old lieutenant.
23:26Someone who'd watched me grow up.
23:30Trustworthy.
23:32I went to the great lake in the east.
23:36Three days of travel.
23:39Through an acacia forest.
23:42Across an open meadow.
23:44Over a dry riverbed.
23:47The dry season river was nothing but white sand and scattered stones under my paws.
23:57When I got to the lake, the water was blue, bright, glittering, like a gem.
24:07Trees along the shore.
24:09The smell of acacia blossoms.
24:12Fish in the water.
24:14Every evening, the sun set and turned the whole lake orange.
24:19And the wind came off the water.
24:23Damp.
24:23Sweet.
24:26And there were a lot of handsome lions.
24:29One evening, I was drinking at the water's edge.
24:33Lion form.
24:34Front legs in the shallows.
24:36Head down.
24:37Tongue curling cold water.
24:40Across the lake, there was another lion.
24:43His mane was black as night.
24:45With purple glints in the setting sun.
24:49He didn't come close.
24:51Didn't make a sound.
24:53He just looked at me once, then lowered his head and started drinking too.
24:59We drank on opposite sides of the whole lake.
25:04When he finished, he shifted to human form.
25:09Berkey was Jell-Mosestin's file and sat on a rock across the water.
25:13A young man, skin deep brown from the sun, broad shoulders, black hair, curly, falling over his shoulders.
25:25His eyes were amber, bright as two lamps in the sunset.
25:29He looked at me.
25:32He looked at me.
25:32I looked at him.
25:36I shifted to human form and smoothed my hair.
25:40We didn't speak, but neither of us left first.
25:44That night, when the moon came up, I heard a low lion's roar from the other side of the lake.
25:51I lay down at the water's edge.
25:55I didn't roar back, but I didn't leave either.
25:59I was gonna be out.
25:59last want on him either. We only saw
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