"How foolish of me," Aela says lightly as she lifts her head from the rushing river. She smiles at Cheri, though she doubts that the onyx mare will find her retort amusing. "I was thinking there might be more to it," she carries on, accepting that perhaps this is what the Loessian heir did with her spare time.
How quaint to flutter about, she thinks.
But the palomino was familiar with the concept that looks could be deceiving, and Aela had heard enough about Cheri from others to know that there was a little more to the light-winged creature. She had plans it seemed for Loess, ideas that Obscene had mentioned that they might find interesting. It would be easy to doubt, especially given the vapid reply that the future Queen gave, but the palomino enjoys that the appaloosa seems receptive enough to play one of her games.
Perhaps it had been her comment about the Taiga - calling it a bog - that earns Aela such a biting response. The Seneschal fights to keep her smile from curving more, from revealing that she rather enjoyed that Cheri had taken her baiting. Tell me Aela, she says and the slender mare raises her head slightly, as if she was ready to consider the pegasus' question. It deserves a much more direct answer than Aela will give, but there is no changing who the palomino is.
Those who cross her path will learn that they can either submit to Aela, or they can move out of her way.
Bowing is no more in her blood than staying idle is.
"I'd love to," Aela tells Cheri, taking a graceful step away from the River and angles herself in the direction towards the Pampas with a thoughtless flick of her pale tail. "But my position keeps me rather busy these days." She continues and then flashes her trademark wry smile, "Though I'll be sure to send Obscene along with my best regards."
@Cheri
They doused your soul in water,
but the flames raged higher.
And they called you devil's daughter,
such a pretty liar.