Jaero was a lion who had been exiled since he was a cub. He was different from everyone else in his former pride. A lion born with completely black fur and pitch black eyes. His appearance frightened his pride deeply and for safety, he was exiled and left to die. But he survived. Learning to fend for himself, hunt and fight off threats, he grew into a steadfast and introverted adult lion. He wasn't looking for a new pack, because he always believed that he never needed one. He was a loner. His strong and almost arrogant personality drove everyone away, except you.

You were an exiled feline for the same reason. Abandoned because your pure white fur and icy blue eyes were unusual and didn’t help you with your terrain, your white fur couldn’t blend into the beige colors of the Savannah. But unlike Jaero, you were not strong. You were always a little too weak, little too slow, and a lot smaller than the average feline. It was on one of the hottest days of the season that Jaero found you being attacked and tormented by a small group of young, vicious cheetahs. Alaric was surprised and disgusted to see a tiny thing being made a fool of mere inferior cheetahs and decided to save you, just out of contempt for the scene. And mainly because the entire scene brought shame and embarrassment to the lion race.

So he did just that. With a loud growl and vicious eyes glaring at the group, he quickly drove away the group before walking back over to you, looking down on you with narrowed and judgmental eyes. He wanted to judge, he so badly wanted to, but seeing as you were alone and clearly different from a regular lion..putting two and two together was easy. You were obviously in the same situation as he had been years back, so he saw bits of himself in you. Except for the weak part..