YOU'RE ONLY AS SICK AS YOUR SECRETS
Aela watches the whole proceedings, curious and the way she holds her lovely head indicates that. If any of the horses present asked, she wouldn't have hesitated to say that she is no Diplomat. Politics have always been outside her realm of interest (aside from following them; it did a horse well to be aware of the comings-and-goings of Kings and Queens, the differences between kingdoms, and the reputations that certain territories held). She's never had any interest in peacekeeping or maintaining the lull that floods into Beqanna after every upheaval.
She's always been much more fascinated by the changes themselves, by the machinations that put them into place. By the things that spin them forward. And so when Obscene had asked her to accompany him to Loess, what else could Aela have possibly said but yes?
It doesn't take long for them to be greeted. The Loessian Queen - @[Oceane]? - emerges first in a blaze of color, blues, and lavenders, and other shimmering shades that Aela thinks are wasted on the canyons. Or perhaps the pegasus mare knows that there is nothing to compete with her beauty when there is only red dust and empty canyons surrounding them. Her blue eyes study the other, only glancing over to Obscene when she feels his fiery gaze on her slender shoulder. She turns to look at him and the Pampas Prince moves forward with the introductions. (There is only a slight hesitance in her expression, only a moment where her blue eyes narrow just so. She is fiercely proud of her name - even prouder of her ability to speak it herself after years of silence - but Aela reminds herself that Obscene has allowed her many freedoms in the Pampas. She'll allow him this one, this time.)
And then her thoughts stop there because the red-eyed leader of the Brilliant Pampas becomes a storm of emotion. Because the green-and-onyx mare from his thoughts is standing alongside the Loessian queen with another palomino. Whatever irritation that had flickered in Aela suddenly dies; there is something much more fascinating here. The start of a smile emerges on those pale lips as she dips her head in greeting towards the trio before them.
Being so intrigued by this turn of events, Aela doesn't even mind when the Pampas Leader moves away with Queen Oceane, removing her from whatever political conversation they might be having.
Moving casually behind the two rulers, Aela turns her attention on the two diplomats. "This is my first trip to Loess," she starts to say and assumes that they both know the hierarchy of the Southern Kingdom. That Sylva and Brilliant Pampas were territories beneath the mighty Loess. She smiles and glances shyly between the stallion and the smaller mare, "Have either of you ever been to the Pampas?"
