The feline sighed and closed his eyes for a second, remebering the face right before the ice shattered, and mourned that sight. He turned to the cub in his paws and smiled, knowing also that the child did not need to know the details of it all, at least, not yet. "Don't worry.... she went to better places, somewhere where there is no pain and sorrow, only happiness and joy, and in time you will go there too, then you can see her again, 'kay?"