While at first Nala had been firm of purpose, she quickly fell to mere wandering, as the caves turned out to be more expansive than she'd thought. Finally, she could no longer deny her exhaustion and so sat down to rest a moment, though she jumped up again when a voice behind her said, "and what do we have here?"

"S-scar," Nala said, surpised and nervous."

"Nala," Scar replied, "I thought I told you to stay put."

"Well, um..." Nala said, unable to think of anything to say.

"That was disobedient Nala and dangerous Nala," Scar said, "you might have become lost wandering around here." He thought for a moment, then added, "of course, I can't blame a cub for being inquisitive, or hungry."

"Hungry," Nala asked nervously, but Scar didn't reply, instead picking her up daintily and walking away, "hey, put me down."

Scar ignored Nala's protests as he carried the femasle cub back to the main cave where the rest of the gazelle carcasses were. Dropping her in front of one of them, he pushed her towards it, and said, "eat up, eat until you can't possibly move."