Aela doesn't patrol the edges of Pangea often. She has never felt the need. The borders here had been protected by two fierce, knife-tailed creatures and she had always assumed that they would cut down any intruder. It wasn't until recently that Beyza had revealed that the pair occasionally left to hunt that the palomino had started to wander near where the Pangean border intersected with Hyaline.
The striped girl has never been to Hyaline but she has found herself growing more curious about it. There were rumors of a colony of shifters and part of her had wanted to validate them for herself. But kingdom lines are things to be respected and without an official reason to go, Aela has kept herself on the outskirts of the Eastern kingdom seat.
Perhaps one day a shifter will wander in her path and Aela will be given the chance to learn about the pack that dwells there.
Today, it is somebody else who crosses her path. It's the tendril of fear that Aela feels first and she follows the emotion, leading her to a girl who stands ahead of her. The young mare stops when the shadow does but the hard Pangean ground has given her away. The golden empath flashes an image of the stranger standing, looking around as Aela emerges in a dim glow of light coming from her legs.
It's the horns that her blue eyes linger on for a moment before they return to the filly. Her pale lips pull back into a thin line as the reek of Taiga permeates the air. "You're a long way from home," she says to the younger girl. "Are the Taigans finally coming out of hiding?"
@[Memorie]