Nala looked up when she heard a noise. looking over at the promontory, she saw Simba struggling with something, which piqued her curiosity. Making her way over, she asked him, "something wrong Simba?"

"Hm," Simba asked, looking up, "oh, hey Nala."

"Hey," Nala replied, "what're you struggling with?"

"This," Simba replied, stepping aside to let Nala see what he'd been struggling with. It looked like a green snake, but with a shiny head, and it tail ended under a rock. "I thought it was a snake at first," the king replied, " now I don't think so."

"Anything I can do to help," Nala asked.

"Yeah," Simba replied, indicating the hose, "d'you think you could pull on this while I try to lift this rock up?"

"Certainly," Nala said, picking up the shiny end of the hose and waddling backwards, "now?"

"Hold on a moment," Simba said, walking over to the rock, "okay, now."

Nala pulled while Simba struggled to lift the rock, things resisted for a few moments, then the rock gave way, freeing the hose and sending the lioness back onto her rump, which sent the head of the hose against the back of her throat.

Sitting stunned for a moment, Nala was unable to stop her reflexes as her throat grabbed at the head, and she swallowed several times before coming to her senses. Realising what she'd done, she tried to dislodge, the hose, but it wouldn't come.

Making his was over, Simba asked, "what's, oh..."

"Yef," Nala said, her speech some what muffled by the hose.

"I'll try pulling this end then," Simba said, "maybe that'll help, okay?"

"Yef," Nala said, trying to get in a position where she could really brace herself.

Simba pulled hard at the hose, trying to drag it out of Nala, but stopped when he heard her whine in pain. Making his way over to her, and said, "doesn't look like that's going to work, so I'll go and get Rafiki okay?"

"Yef, go on," Nala said, rubbing her throat.

"Okay," Simba said, "try not to touch anything okay?"

"Yef, okay," Nala said.