Well, here was a rare animal. Scar wasn't sure he'd ever seen on like it before. Something like a jackal...but certainly bigger than that. Still nothing compared to the size of a lion, but the hyenas would probably have some trouble with this one.

They had all been rather surprised when he arrived, something about having watching him get mauled. It didn't take long before the lot of them shut up, however, as the Heartless proved far more useful than the hyenas ever had. For one thing, the Heartless actually obeyed him. None of them had dared to follow him beyond the boundary of the Elephant Graveyard.

It hadn't taken Scar long after that to be quite certain that these were not his Pride Lands. Oh, it was the same place, of course, that he couldn't deny. However, the Pride Lands he had left were in the middle of a terrible drought. While the signs of that dry season were still here, new grass was growing, and he could see sprigs of new leaves on the trees. This was probably the Pride Lands of Zira's memories, or one of her brats, or Simba's little whelp. He probably would not be welcome at Pride Rock, but that didn't deter him. He had the Heartless on his side now. The lionesses would not dare stand against him.

But as he came to the water hole, this odd canine certainly caught Scar's attention. The scent was even familiar, though Scar could hardly venture a guess as to why.

"Don't you think it's rather dangerous to be so close to a pride of lions?" Scar's teeth glinted in the morning sun, a trick he used often. He might not have had an easy time intimidating many of those in the city as a lion, but here in the Pride Lands lions reigned supreme. And if this canine didn't know that already, Scar would be more than willing to teach him.

Well then, that atleast erased her doubts. So this truely is Scar, and the stranger is someone named Link? Strange name. But that still leaves Vitani the not so little problem of she had never really considered what she would do when she finally ran into Scar, and now she truely wishes she had because she honestly doesn't know what to do now that she is here.

She stops when she gets close, though if she were actually paying attention, she may notice she's actually a bit too close. Either Link or Scar could catch her scent, and if either happened to look in her direction, possibly see the lioness watching them from the tall grass.

Now there was a scent Scar had not smelled in a long time. Of course he would never forget the smell of his own cub. From Link's eyes, he could also easily tell just where she was. He made no indication, however, as to his awareness either of Link's face, or her scent.

"Oh good, I'm so glad to hear you're doing well. Yes, it is. These are the lands I ruled over as King. Though...it seems this version of them has seen quite some time pass. The last time I was here, the Pride Lands were in the middle of a horrible drought." The state of the vegetation made it quite clear, in fact.

"But then, the last time I was here, I was not being stalked by my own cub, isn't that right, Vitani?" Scar did not turn toward her, nor take his eyes off Link.

"I'm not frightened, Father." Except that was a lie. She certainly didn't want to be here while Scar knew she was there, and she definitly didn't want to get closer to him. So while she does walk out from behind Scar, she's still a small distance away from him, by her judgement enough to be able to get away if need be.

She was only a cub when her father died, but she didn't want to run any risks with him. "Who is your friend?" Trying to divert attention back away from herself.

Scar took note of Vitani's position. Even one of Zira's cubs was unable to hide her nervousness around him. He was almost amused--or would be, if it wasn't such a clear sign of his cub's insubordination.

"I saved him from the Heartless some time ago," he said. "If it weren't for me, they probably would have taken his heart." This was going to send some extremely mixed messages to Vitani. Even though she'd been a very small cub when supposedly Scar had been...killed...she would likely remember him much more as he really was, rather than this friendly facade he'd put up to fool everyone in Paixao.

Vitani follows Scar's movements, watching him walk around them. She certainly didn't trust Scar to get out of her line of sight, even less than she trusted the stranger she had just met.

But if Scar was going for uncertainty, well, he got from Vitani. One minute he was acting so strange, and now it was more like what she did remember. "I don't see why a fight would break out." With Link, anyway, but she doesn't add that.

"Me?" Scar brought a paw to his chest, and gave quite the look of shock. "Why would I ever want to fight you?" Aside from the fact that Scar would never sully his paws fighting a canine unless he absolutely had to.

"And you'll have to forgive me, Vitani, I must have been mistaking you for your mother for a moment. I must be getting old." He brought a paw to his forehead. "Being a king seems to have started taking its toll on me."

That condescending tone earns a bit of a glare from Vitani. "Of course I know my own father, it's also how I know you aren't exactly the most worthy of trust."

Vitani glances over at Link as he tries to excuse himself, though doesn't respond. She had already said Scar wasn't the most worthy of trust, Link could do as he saw fit.

"Suit yourself. But that isn't the right direction," Scar corrected the wolf. "The door back to the city is in the Elephant Graveyard, across the Northern border." The lion wasn't kind enough to indicate the direction, but he figured Link would use the sun to find which way was North. It really wasn't difficult.

Such a shame that his little plan hadn't quite worked out, but Link was now afraid of him, rather than suspicious. As long as that remained the case, he would be quite easy to deal with. Vitani, on the other hand...

He turned toward his daughter. "Now what exactly was it that makes you think I would lie, hm?" The malicious undertone to his words was just barely perceptible, more detectable in his movement toward her than anything else.

And much like Scar, Vitani stops paying attention to Link as well, her attention on her father. She tries to make sure her apprehension doesn't show, knowing full well she's on thin ice as it is, and it was only bound to get worse.

"I changed my mind on my own, Father."

Scar started to circle his daughter, a malicious sort of grin on his muzzle that spoke more of a desire to inflict pain than it did any sort of cheeriness.

"Oh did you now? And what was the cause of that? Did Mommy not do a good job of raising you?"

Vitani likewise lowers herself to the ground slightly so as to be able to either pounce or dodge quickly, whichever would prove to be needed. There's even a small growl at his words, despite Vitani's reservations that this is Scar himself she's dealing with.

"You know nothing of what happened in the future, do you, Father?"

And Vitani isn't sure if she should run the risk of telling those details. As far as she knows, she's alone with Scar, assuming Link had already gone well on his way back to wherever he was intending to go. Not only considering her own safety, she knew she had to consider Kovu's as well.

"I don't see why I should take the trouble to tell when Mother should be able to well enough."

"How you think I should act likely varies from what I actually will." It's stated more as a simple fact, and while she doesn't actually roll her eyes at him, her tone would certainly suit the action.

As he expected, Vitani doesn't intent to just acquiescence as do as he might tell or ask of her.

Even if Vitani didn't remember Scar too much, that didn't really change the fact she knew when she was being threatened. Seems she'll have to watch her back around Paixao from now on, though atleast it wouldn't be anything new to her. You had to know who was coming up behind you when you lived in such a place as the Outlands.

"No, I suppose there wouldn't."

She would be nervous, would be paying more attention to whoever may or may not be around her for a while yet. Atleast this way she knows to expect something sooner or later, rather than being completely taken by surprise.

She scoffs a bit at those words, though. Vitani knew perfectly well how her mother tended to me, she had been her second in command for far too long to not know. "I can handle myself, you've no need to tell me that."

"I'm sure." And the sarcasm drips from each word. No, she doesn't believe him at all.

She leans away slightly as he walked by, watching him though doesn't move to attack. If she attacked without much of actual provocation, it would just be a problem for her in the end, one she certainly didn't need.