Malik, Shierak's dad, had driven it into his son that he head to be up hours before anyone else. So when he opened his eyes and found his family den empty, it made the vibrantly yellow maned lion's pulse quicken just a bit. He wouldn't get in trouble, no, but it was unnerving. He spent years waking up first and now he was the last one?
Pale eyes squinted as he made his way out of the den one night. It was early for them, well, relatively, but everything seemed so out of place now. It was so weird. This was just a weird day that he wasn't sure he liked already.
Maybe if he went back to sleep? That thought made Shierak look back at the den and then sighed and looked forward. No, time to go get a drink and wake up. So he made his way to the watering hole with his eyes half closed but definitely watering.