[private] but your savage love

[Gale]

Gale this is going to break me clean in two -- this is going to bring me close to you He does mean to share them with her, the memories of his father being everbright, and knows that he’s been successful by the fascination with which she Sees them. When she smiles, and continues with pleasantries to match his own, Gale decides that this change in her demeanor is a good sign. He is a trusting creature, after all, and while Aela had been guarded at first, it only makes sense to be more comfortable with one’s family. Even if they are new family. Her question isn’t one he’d expected, but it is one that he has answered before, and so the words don’t feel quite as stiff on his tongue as when he had said them the times before. “He was killed,” Gale replies, “by the Curse. And by the fires in Loess when it was burned by the Pangeans.” Four winters ago, he realizes. Time has passed so very quickly. He does not have to tell her what he’d told Pteron, that their mother had perished as well. A small blessing, he decides, as he watches Aela’s face for her reaction. “I only met her once,” he adds, referring to their father’s grandmother, the mare from whom Gale has inherited his abilities. “Is she always so...” Gale struggles to find the right word, and settles with a few instead. “She seems quite formidable.” @[Aela]