[private] it's all up in the air and we stand still

[Gale]

Gale this is going to break me clean in two -- this is going to bring me close to you Gale has a great many weaknesses, and most of them have been found and broken open. Are any of them vulnerable to her still, the Curse wonders? It recalls how it had felt in the Meadow when she’d defended herself and holds back a shudder. Aela believes that he speaks of the deaths of Lepis and Wolfbane, and it keeps the pleasure of the deception from appearing on dark face, which remains flat as he meets her gaze. Unable to lie, it simply does not answer. She breaks the silence with a question about the stars, and it is such an abrupt departure that it answers without thinking. “Yes.” It takes him several attempts, but he manages to dim his glowing by the time the stars appear most brightly overhead. The glowing is a fairly new expression of magic, and not one he has much experience with controlling. He’s not had a reason to; the light added an extra challenge to his nocturnal hunting in Hyaline. Aela dims her glow far faster. Would it gain that ease if it devoured her heart? Gale’s head tilts curiously, and it stares more intently with his bright blue eyes as it waits for the story she means to share. @[Aela]