[TAKEOVER] I am the one thing in life I can control

[Aela]

Aela still doesn’t quite understand how Fate is weaving its threads here - how it's twining the three of them together - but she understands enough that she won’t argue (much) with it. There had been the Pampas, and now the Pampas was gone. There had been a Court, and now that Court was gone. There had been an entire kingdom, and now that was gone. She had wanted to be gone from Taiga - from the North entirely - and yet here she was, left with no other option but to come North.

She doesn’t take kindly to this - to her path forward being so plainly shown to her without any alternatives - but if Aela is going to take her place back on the kingdom stage of politics, she will do what she has to. So she is back in Taiga, watching as the Fae beast claims the territory for himself, and her mind reels with the possibilities that this brings.

With the things they must do.

With the horses they have yet to find.

Oren snaps her out of those thoughts, and it takes everything in her not to scowl at the stallion with Lilliana’s eyes. There is someone here - much to her belief that the Redwoods were empty - but it doesn’t seem the bay is here to oppose them. His curiosity is easy enough to detect, almost as much as Ledger’s lust had been in Loess. Aela simply stands quietly, listening to Cheri make inquiries about her half-sister, and the palomino glances around, as if Oren’s twin might not be far behind him. She decides to skip the pleasantries entirely.

"Are there others here?” she asks, aware of the Shadow Clans, but what about the other ones? Aela would not tolerate any opposition to their takeover, and if there was any, the sooner she learned of it, the sooner she could smother it.

@Oren @Cheri @Obscene