"The last thing I remember of any of you...was leaving. I was in the Pride Lands, and...Kiara and I were spending time together." Kovu hung his head.

"We were looking up at the stars...and trying to say things that we thought they looked like. She said she used to do that with her father all the time." His breath caught for a second. What he was about to describe to Vitani had to be one of the stupidest things he'd ever said in his life, short of what he'd said when he and Kiara had gone hunting with Simba. "She said that Simba had told her the great kings of the past are up there. I asked if she thought Scar was there with them, but when I looked back at her, I was here instead."