Sarabi could only glare, as the hyenas, at first cautious, quickly broke down in laughter at the sight of a Sarabi. Finally, one of them recovered enough to say, "okay, enough of that you lot," and finally, by degrees the rest of the hyenas calmed down, though not one of them stopped sniggering.
When things were finally quiet, the hyena who'd spoken asked, "who are you, and why're you here?" Sarabi didn't answer, so, after several moments, the hyena said, "okay, have it your way." Signalling a couple of the other hyenas to join it, the hyena approached the lioness, and said, "you're coming with us, don't try to run, because we'll kill you, and don't trt to resist either, because that'll lead to the same fate, understood?"
"Fully," Sarabi replied coldly.
"Come on then," the hyena said. At first Sarabi did refuse to move, but not for long as the other four hyenas approached, boxing her in and nipping at her.
It took the group some time to get where they were going, and when they did the future looked bleak for Sarabi, they'd arrived in what must have been the main social are, for there was dozens of hyena. As the group moved across the area Sarabi began to attract more and more unwanted attention from the other hyenas, some of which sneered at her, but most of which simply broke down laughing at the lioness's appearance.
Finally the group approached a raised section, almost a dais, on which lounged a female hyena and her two male cohorts. "Seems like you got yourself a little prize," the female said, in a voice which left Sarabi with no doubt that this was Shenzi, former and apparently current matriarch of the hyena clan. She then rose, jumped down from the almost-dais, and began to examine the lioness, pulling back in surprise after only a few moments, "Sarabi."
"Shenzi," Sarabi replied coldly.
Shenzi seemed to be at a loss for a moment, then finally said, "long time no see."
"Not long enough," Sarabi replied.
"Oh come on Sarabi," Shenzi said, "that's no way to talk to a friend is it?"
"You're not my 'friend'," Sarabi replied, "so I can talk to you how I like."
"That you can," Shenzi said, "but I wouldn't be too nasty if I was you, after all, I'm controlling whether you live or die, and I'll always go the easy way, easy for me anyway."
"You won't have me for that long," Sarabi replied, "Simba knows where I am, so it's only a matter of time before I'm out of here."
"She's lying," the other hyena said as Shenzi raised her eyebrow at it, "she's been following us the whole way, she didn't get a chance to warn anyone, plus she broke the log getting over here, so there's no way they could get at us even if they did know."
Sarabi tried to keep her face neutral as her hopes of a successful bluff faded, but couldn't stop the twinkle of worry in her eye, which Shenzi immediately pounced on. "Nice try," the matriarch said to the lioness, "pity for you it didn't work."
"So now what are you going to do with me," Sarabi asked.
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