YOU'RE ONLY AS SICK AS YOUR SECRETS
There is a spark of something she recognizes behind the boy's brilliantly blue gaze.
It's a shade that she has seen before - (and Aela isn't unaware that it is one similar to her own) and for a moment, she remembers the flaxen-haired girl that came ambling to Pangea. The one that had resembled the horned stallion and so when this fire-and-bone colt with similar coloring calls her name, those golden ears flick back.
This is somebody else who had known who she was before she recognized them; the knowledge only comes when he skims her memories that she realizes they share a gift. Is this another child of the star-marked Taigan? A sibling to the filly that had come to Pangea? Had the family in the Northern forest grown so broad that they could not keep track of all their offspring?
She still smiles at the boy but it is no longer as bland as it once was. Aela has no issue revealing all her brilliance in one radiant look. She takes advantage of the moment - the lapse in his magic as he scours her memories - to glimpse through his. (She isn't all-Seeing like her grandmother, Heartfire, but the blue roan had taught Aela to never miss an opportunity when one was presented.) The images are mostly of the dark, confirming how young he still is. But the few that contain also reveal the fog of Taiga, the trees that spear the sky. Her pale nearly curls in disapproval.
"My reputation precedes me?" she asks him (and if it were the truth, she wouldn't be upset). The smile she wears tips to one side, as if Fate was finally in his favor.
The humor she planted seems to work in her favor because he smiles back at her. "Well, clearly now it isn't." She tells him, tilting her head in a tell-tale sign of the ability they both share. "Reave." Aela calls him when she finally gets what she wants, plucking the name from his memories. The palomino takes another step towards the colt, turning her head another way while still focusing on the familiarity of his face. "Should we celebrate?"
And then Aela uses it lightly, still unfamiliar with this new gift (though she is grateful to Beyza for making her aware of it). It's just a flash of confidence - there and gone - before she gives the colt a wildfire smile, wondering what he might do with it.
@[Reave]