Being a Guard was hard work, even for a Lion as Large as Potopoto was, not just the patrols or the highlight of the occasional fight, those where his favorite part of his job, but the constant aggression he feels he has to show so that other take him very seriously when he gives them directions is exhausting. Every day in long rotating intervals He works, he trains, he spars when he can goad someone into it, but every once in a while, he gets a day off. One day, a day where he can just breathe, most of the time he is left alone, he doesn’t blame them but he has thought about what else he wants to do with himself many times. He goes himself to the shaded side of the Watering hole to see if it was crowded, It didn’t matter if it was anyway, when he goes, most leave without needing him request their silence.One by one others left, especially if he stared at them long enough but today he didn’t care. Most left anyway, a few brave zebras stayed down the way to drink as he laced himself in the spotted shade along the bank where the soil is cooled from the waiters murky edge. He didn’t often talk but he was a very intelligent individual in his own way, he just had an extreme addiction problem. He loves to fight, he loves the danger and how his enemies could bleed. He didn’t typically need direct aggression often to deal with his Fellow Pridemates, but he used it at times anyway especially when dealing with known troublemakers or tense situations generate more tension in him.
The water was murky but pretty in its own way, the warming African air and the steady breeze made him just smile to himself. Come on Potopoto, what are you going to do with yourself? Take up a mate? Contribute to my strength in the only other way I know how? To secure the future of the other cubs in the bride by passing along my genes, my strength.. yes but which who exactly… he thought to himself, he reflected to his reputation, its how he got where he was, the Royal Family trusts him to get results and his most of his patrol routes keep him close by pride rock. He’s a force in his own right but he is also very much alone…. For now.
