Lex's POV
After a couple of days, Lex noticed his little female didn't act like the other female babies. Males were the ones who were responsible for their litter. Little Lyria went everywhere with her dad. He's gotten used to having his little female hanging onto him wherever he went. It was also a way to show off but not show anyone what his female looks like. His little female never makes any noise which is why he tied her to his chest with some fur, so he doesn't forget her. Sometimes he does forget she is still there till she poops, pees, or is hungry. His mate gave him two other litters. Seven young males also follow him and help with their little sister. They were a family of Leopard beasts. Even though Lex is the head worrier he was still only a three-marked beast. Position and power are determined by the number of marks a beast man has. Ten marks are the highest that's been recorded. Females are born without a beast and can gain them at as early as five years of age. Male beast men are born in their beast forms and gain their man self at as early as seven. Most females don't gain their beasts at all because they are not worthy of that great power.
Beast forms aren't that important to females and even believe they're not needed. It's also said that once a female does gain its beast form, she already has one mark whereas it's a lot harder for males to gain marks. Marks are achieved through major impactions that they've gone through like successfully catching your own prey or coming close to death.
Lyria is now three months old and always looking at things, curious about all. One afternoon Lex was running behind and wasn't able to hunt at his usual time. While Lyria is being fed Lex goes out to hunt with his other cubs, but one of his cubs trips and falls in a ditch hurting one of his paws and had to be carried back to the witch doctor in the village to be treated. He left the cub there to be looked after when one of his other brothers was seen bringing out his little female.
His mate is always being careless with the little female and acted like she didn't want anything to do with her. All of Sayla's other spouses were jealous of Lex's little female and were always trying to take her for themselves to show off. Once Lex saw Alan walking away with his little female he charged at him, snatched his little female back, and slammed Alan down into the ground. "If I ever see you touching my daughter again, I'll rip your throat out", he snarled in Alan's face.