Bandit

He enters and waits for Sivinith and the cubs. He looks into a fault. "Wow!" He exclaims.

Sivinith, Snowden, Auna, Tolacca, & Asplen

Sivinith pads in, carrying the limp kitten in her jaws. Her long tail dragged across the barren ground, and her leery gaze scanned over everything. The warmth was nice, but Sivinith wasn't use to such a flat area. She much preffered high, rocky habitats. But this would have to do.

Snowden pads over to Bandit and looks down the fault as well, "Woah, that's realy deep! I'd hate to fall down that." he exclaims. Auna peers over the edge as well, then hunches her body. With a powerful leap, she clears the large fault and lands safely on the other side.

Asplen glances up at his sister, "Don't fool around, Auna." She rolls her eyes at him, and leaps back over to the other side with Bandit and Snowden. "This place is realy warm. It'd be neat to live here.

Bandit

He smiles. "Auna be careful. I heard its not good if you fall in one of those faults." He says. He wasnt even about to attempt a jump for he was afraid of falling. He smiles. "Its great how warm it is here since its winter especially." He says. He notices a dome and runs to it and climbs up but cat look in it because the smoke felt sufficating. He was amazed for this terrain was very different from anywhere he had been.

Sivinith, Auna, Snowden, Tolaca, & Asplen

Auna peered down into the fault, while clinging carefully to its edge with her sharp claws. "You're right. I can't see the bottom, but I can feel heat coming up from it." The shadows made the deep fault seem bottomless. The kitten looked up at the dome, but didn't run over to it. "This place is sooo different from the ridged! But I wonder why there aren't any plants or anything. It make it hard to stalk prey."

Snowden began to race across the ground, kicking up clouds of dust with his broad, furry paws. "Yeah, but you can run fast here!" he called back to his sister, "There aren't many trees or steep ground to stop you!"

Sivinith watched them play, and was very alert. She wasn't use to this kind of terrain at all, and being out in the open kept her on edge. But she had to agree with Bandit; the warmth was nice in the cold winter months. Laying down, the mother leopard flicked her yard-long tail over Tolacca who had fallen asleep. "Bandit, where does your mother live?"

Bandit

He smiles and rolls in the dust playfully and then shakes his pelt off and pads over to Sivinith and lays by her when he hears her question. "Sadley she lives at the wolf center. The humans doing no doubt. I was lucky to excape. But its not a safe place to go at all... Humans are around there." He says. "Those eveil Creautures." He adds. He knew it wasnt safe for the humans lurked there.

Sivinith, Tolacca, Snowden, Auna, Asplen

"Humans." Asplen mutteres under his breath, while rolling his eyes to show his disgust. Sivinith frowns slightly, in thought. "I'll never understand those creatures." she finally said, "If you ever want to go there, I'll take you. But..." she looked at the rest of her kittens, "You four will have to stay behind in a hiding place. I don't think any of you have good enough stealth skills yet."

Snowden came bounding over, then skidded to a stop so that a cloud of dust rose up and wafted towards his mother. She sneeze and shook her coat of the dust and gave him a chastising look. Ignoring the look in a mischevious way, the kitten spoke, "I'm stealthy! Did you see me hunting the bharal?"

Sivinith gave a small grin, "Yeah, I did. And you weren't all that stealthy." Snowden huffed, "That's what you think; I just wasn't trying."

Bandit

He smiled and waged his tail. "Can we go now after we find them a hideing place?" He asked hopefully. He could be stealthy around the wolf center for he had been there befor and knew what it looked like.

Sivinith, Tolacca, Snowden, Auna, & Asplen

She nodded and stood up. There didn't seem to be much for hiding places in this area, though. But after a quick search around, the leopard mother found a somewhat decent place for her cubs. A tree had fallen down after its roots were killed by the hot water running below it and the toxic gasses that damaged its leaves. Half of the branches and the trunk were white because of sulfurous water that had run over them. "You four hide here under the branches, and don't leave."

Snowden padded over to the tree and sniffed it, then wrinkled his nose at the stench. Sulfur smelt like rotten eggs. "You sure picked a nice spot, mum." he joked, still wrinkling his nose. Sivinith carried Tolacca to the hiding spot, and the other two kittens followed. "I'll make sure they all stay put." Auna offered. Sivinith nodded, "Good, make sure they go no where." Now she turned to Bandit, "Alright, I'm ready to follow you."

Bandit

He nodded and led the way.