YOU'RE ONLY AS SICK AS YOUR SECRETS
It's funny, how little the dark bothers Aela.
Beqanna had suffered a year, and then some, of it. The pitch had swallowed everything and the population of this realm had been left to stumble through the darkness. To find a way towards the future. Aela - who has never considered herself much of a warrior - had learned how to battle with Magic and how to use her skills in a way that allowed her more freedom than she ever found in the daylight.
The Eternal Night had happened and many had suffered; and a few, like Aela, had learned to survive.
But during that time - Aela who had been so full of ambitions and aspirations - had to focus on survival. There had been the knowing of where to hide yourself, of how to keep cover from the monsters that might make you a meal (and that would never do for the palomino who was meant for so much more). It had been the knowledge of how to slowly tear them apart (if the Monsters stayed that long) by each thread of emotion that had spared her and kept that golden coat of hers so flawless. It had also been that knowledge - the time it took to learn it - that had taken Aela away from her goals. All that lost time could have been better spent in daylight, just waiting for the perfect moment that she has always been waiting for.
The moment that Fate comes to find her and tells Aela: now.
Fate, however, is fickle and Aela has never been good at waiting. So on a night when she is coming back from the Pampas with a mind blazing full of ideas, she takes a shortcut through Hyalinean Mountains to return to Pangea. The striped girl weaves through the rugged terrain and has no intention of pausing in the kingdom of the East (not out of disrespect but Aela has such little time to waste and what would she do in Hyaline?) There is a glimmer of something familiar that pauses the traveling Aela, a shade of blue that she knows and the golden girl stalls her journey home when the moonlight reveals the familiar shape of her half-brother. He's never struck as the type to be nocturnal but then, Aela is a girl full of curiosities and so she doesn't pass the chance to ask with a sly smile: "Isn't it past your bedtime, @[Gale]?"
you know Aela absolutely wants to meet Not-Gale lmao