Scared child became just unnerved as Salvia crouched down and told her that the big lion wasn't going to hurt her or steal her food. Slowly she nodded, and pressed against Elsweyr's tail as it curved around the child. "So.. big...! Big is.. scary." She muttered, even though all fear seemed to have left her eyes.

The tiny child looked at Aurum, listening to him, trying to understand. He wasn't a danger? But he was so big! But pretty-mother and Little Lion said he wasn't any harm. Big lion said so too. She stood up and fumbled with her paws before slowly walking toward Aurum. Her head was tilted and she walked with one paw up. Once she was close to his muzzle, she bopped him on the nose with her paw. For her, it was a test of temperment (even if she didn't know that).

To observe the manner Elsweyr had grown taken by the kitten, in a frame of time that seemed so minimal, drew discomfort beneath his skin, taunt grown once lax muscle. Before there had been no issue with the situation of his own lack of maternal figure, he may not miss that he had not known for care had shifted to Aurum alone in early days. Downward twitched lips as he watched her coil the length of her tail about, restrain in part possibly as continued the display, something with it spurning cub. Away attention moved as she addressed Aurum in turn, filling in the spaces he was incapable of doing so.

Briefly back did it shift, the voice that spoke gentle, nest inaudible. Imparted meaning, if not words, hasty retreat conducted to permit the kitten room. Forgotten how he bore a size greater than she, though still did he grow and was soft beneath baby fat, sheepish grown in wake of realisation. "Sometimes I get scared as well." Softened his voice, gentle the curl about his lips, grown silent as movement was made apparent by the manner paws slide along the loose terrain.

Over shoulder vision turned and he almost allowed laughter to arise as he watched the manner Aurum spread himself out, indeed smaller but in a position Salvia had not seen him prior. Taken by example so too did he lower himself, still permitted distance between himself and Ares, chin nestled between his paws. From here did he watch her shaky approach, upwards head jerking before it was quickly pressed back into place, he bore no wish to startle Ares. With her action, and that his father performed after, loosened his laughter, a sudden burst of mirth.

"He's a big teddy bear." The grin he bore was in part for the child, much for the memories that gently played, those nights pressed against slumbering father, a comforting presence chasing from frightened mind any nightmare that had previously plagued him.