[open] To Be Alone Or Not?

[Aela]

There is a pleased quirk to Aela's coy smile as she watches the other mare. A quick glimmer of confusion dances in her blue eyes and then there is nothing. The Seneschal flicks her flaxen tail and takes a step forward, coming close enough that the frenzied thoughts of the other are heard in her mind until there was nothing at all.

"You should be scared of him," Aela says as she comes to stop directly in front of the other mare. She tilts her head slightly, studying the lines of her face for some trace of something. But she's always been a perfection, and the absence of anything tells her that she has succeeded.

Her smile tugs again, "but you should also be scared of me."

Gale is off to her side, and she catches a glimpse of the brindled stallion near her golden flank. A hoof has become a talon and there is a griffin where a pegasus had stood moment before. She catches the brilliance of their grandmother's knowing gaze and her expression never falters. It takes a great deal of her willpower to push all their surrounding emotions out - what had been Nerica's anger, the curiosity that not-Gale always seemed to carry - and for a moment, she considers swapping them.

It would certainly be a test of her precision, of what she could force to make another feel, the scope of that emotion, of how many she could do it to.

There are too many unpredictable factors, but those unpreditabilities give her an idea. Still looking at her brother, she shrugs her slender shoulders and says, "as you wish." The anger and the confusion come in slowly, rolling back to the trio like the fog does in the morning within the misty Taiga. It seeps back into their hosts but there had been one that Aela had sensed during Nerica's desperation - the comfort that she had wanted - comes now to warm them like the sun and the palomino no longer bothers (or is able) to direct it back to only the appaloosa.

So Aela - like the kind and caring sister she is - comforts Gale as well as their new friend.

@Nerica @Gale