Into the great unknown

The giant cat lazily moved across the tepid sand. He'd been aware of the land bridge for some time now, but had only recently decided to act on his curiosity. Kimbia had put a lot of thought into it, had carefully weighed the possible outcomes, and finally decided the gain was probably worth the risk. 'Probably' being the keyword. Much could go wrong. He had no idea what he was getting into, what kind of creatures might live at the other end. But that was just it -he didn't know. There could be a whole world beyond his slice of home. He'd carved out a range in his homeland, but many of his neighbors were close relatives and it made for slim and dangerous pickings. Perhaps -and it was, in his mind, a very slim perhaps- there were other cheetahs on the other side of the great unknown. He'd only ever known one way of life and while he knew others existed, the cat couldn't quite wrap his mind around those possibilities. Just thinking about the kind of things he might be able to learn across the bridge caused his heart to skip a beat. New plants and animals, new remedies (and on the same coin, new ailments) and new cultures. And as always, new dangers. In any case this would make for a story worth telling.