That was just what Scar wanted to hear. Zira's ferocity had been one thing that had always attracted him to her, and it was marvelous to witness it firsthand again.

"How is it, I wonder, that such a loyal cub would have gone so astray?" A smile marked his question, his amusement with the situation belying his terrible disappointment with the lioness' failure to raise her son as she had intended.