YOU'RE ONLY AS SICK AS YOUR SECRETS
Aela ignores his niceties outright; she rarely has time for them in any other situation and she makes no exception for the boy. Her blazed face gazes down on the black colt and the golden woman doesn't bother to hide the contempt lining the elegant angles of her face. She says nothing and it is only the lightning flick strike of her fine tail that speaks of her irritation.
An irritation that only grows when the boy says that she looks like her - another palomino that basks in the loving glow of his memories.
She decides to turn this into a game. He has detained her long enough so the striped mare decides to make the encounter worth her while. Aela smiles, though it lacks anything warm. Her face is full of frost while her blue eyes glitter with winter's chill. Perhaps he is too young to have any concept of how free his mind is but she plucks a memory from his mind, an image of the lovely woman she can only assume is his mother.
"Perhaps she looks like me," Aela defers to the youth, turning around further to face him directly. It makes her curious, because even if the faces she finds in Benjamen's mind interest her little, there are glances of a land that she has never seen, and the possibility to create chaos on foreign shores is a tempting thought.
It's only the mention of Nashua that gives her pause and the slender mare lifts her head, with her ears flicking neatly into the smooth silk of her mane. Aela would like to claim that the King of the North resembles her but even she can't deny that the two stallions from Taiga - Nashua with his golden stripes, Yanhua with his blue eyes - are strikingly similar to her. That had been one mark against her elder brother, their recent argument is another and the anger from it is still simmering beneath her skin.
Her eyes widen slightly, as if the mention of him is shocking.
"You know Nashua?" Aela suddenly asks, her mind delighting at this coincidence. The chances that she could teach her brother and this youth a lesson become twofold and then like the great mimic she is, she feigns fear. "He... he allowed you to leave Taiga?"
@[Benjamen]