The Lair Guardian leads you down another tunnel. The temperature has dropped a few degrees but not enough to make you comfortable.  The passage begins to widen but before you can get a good look of anything ahead, a large cerbi slinks out of the darkness.  It is a male from what you see, brown with dark tiger stripes and red flames.  Behind him, a large two-toned male with a gree colored flame lays agains the widening passage walls.  The first male eyes you with annoyance.

"What do you want, human." The first snarls at you and lashes his tail.  You explain why you had come this way. "So the Lair Guardian let YOU through?  You are pathetic.  Why would you be deserving of a cerbi pup?" the second male chimes in, eyeing you like a piece of hamburger.  You don't know what to say, only that you would do all that was asked of you.  The first male looks satisfied and moves back, allowing you to see into the large cavern that the widening passage gives way to.  Several female cerbi lounge on the warm stone, one or two gnawing on bones from their last meal....which you hope isn't a human like yourself.  The striped male bares his teeth into a grin.  "I'm Dark Tiger.  My second in command is Ember's Flare.  Come now, I'll introduce you to my females." The first two females are carrying on a conversation, looking quite harmless except for the claws, blades, and three heads they sport like all other cerbi.  The striped female notices you and Dark first.

She eyes you warily, glancing at Hidden with a rather annoyed look. "Why did you bring that human in here?" she askes with a silky, low tone.  Dark eyes you again and you hope he's not having second thoughts. "Because they want to foster.  The human has not run away by now so at least it has courage." The female doesn't look quite as satisfied as you'd like but she doesn't look as hostile as before. "I'm Dancing Cloud, first female of this pack." she says to you, then glances at her friend.  "This is Regaled Snowfall." Regaled smirks and stretches out her forelegs, dragging the claws along the stone ground as she pulls them back under herself.  She says nothing but she watches you closely.  One more female has noticed your arrival and has wandered over to see if it is just a human...or dinner.

Dark nods his heads at the grey female. "That Silent Storm...she is without the ability to see but she is quite able at caring for pups and guarding the Lair.  She is the third female." The scarred female bows her heads slightly in greeting but neither says or does anything else.  Dark watches her for a moment, then turns to you. "You'd be leave now.  I'm hungry and no doubt the females are too.  Away with you human."