YOU'RE ONLY AS SICK AS YOUR SECRETS
Aela's tried this before, what her younger brother Reave is doing. She's tried to put memories together - to connect them to reveal a bigger picture - but that is an advantage she does not have. That is her grandmother's gift and now she realizes, to this newly-found sibling. The palomino might have been angrier if it weren't for the flashes of Heartfire dancing between them.
It makes her stop and wonder as she remembers that the other brother she has - Gale - shares this gift. She knows that her granddam has left Beqanna but Aela can't help but wonder at the coincidence of it all. First Gale and now Reave and the striped girl wonders if Heartfire can See all this as well. Was she somewhere out in the wilds of Beyond curving that small smile, tugging on invisible strings?
Life weaves together in such an odd way.
In the back of her mind, there are memories that she's tried to explore. The crash of angry surf. A black wraith of a stallion galloping behind her. And then it all goes dark.
The boy wears an impish grin and speaks of celebrating family; of reunions and Aela feels her ears flick instinctively back. You can't reunite something that hasn't yet been joined. She has certainly never thought of herself as a Northerner and Aela doesn't mean to start now.
But @[Reave] insinuates the word Mom again and the palomino lifts her head, inquisitively studying the colt as the image of the blue-eyed mare from Taiga fills her vision.
"You're very sure of your mother," she tells Reave (and feels a warm flare of pleasure at the words - Aela imagines that she sounds very much like the blue woman who raised her). Her head tilts slightly to the side again before she rights it and the golden girl considers while taking another step towards him, "what of you?" She eyes the growing armor on his copper shoulders before glancing up again. Those bone-covered plates would help him later on in life, should he take the fighter's route. In the meantime, she is more curious about the ability they both share.
She flashes a few images of the Taiga - mighty Redwoods bathed in fog, sunlight barely breaking through the trees - and nearly shudders from the imaginary damp. Aela knows that Reave can sense and see them but if he shares Heartfire's gift with this one, well, its a curiosity (and it had the potential to be useful to her). Her blue eyes watching, gauging for a perceptible reaction. "You didn't find Taiga suffocating?"
