YOU'RE ONLY AS SICK AS YOUR SECRETS
Her bloodline is filled to the brim with stories.
Kota has told her plenty about the legends that concern Beqanna. Heartfire has Shown everything in-between all of Aela's questions and then her recent treks in Nerine have shown her glimpses of a future that Aela can still hardly conceive. The strange boy that had found her on the rocky ledges had just another curiosity, another glimpse of what life and magics linger outside this realm.
Perhaps, someday, when she has lain enough ruin across Beqanna, Aela will look towards other worlds.
The smile on her face turns sly when she sees Gale frown. It had been frustrating to press the other memories beneath his iridescent skin and sense no reaction. It had been even more frustrating to sense nothing from him. But frowning Wherewolf intrudes like she hoped that he might. During their last meeting, Gale couldn't hide his memories from her, and Aela was able to glean much from him. Enough that when he says that he has terrible things planned for this one, the palomino doesn't believe him.
Gale's light tone seems to confirm what she suspects; he reminds her of the brothers in Taiga that seem so good.
It makes Aela laugh. "Ah, yes." She murmurs, still glancing up at the shimmering starlight. "The fearsome, terrible @[Gale]." It's as close to teasing as she can come. (She means no offense to the brindled stallion. He bears the cremello scars of a warrior and while Aela certainly thinks that he could stand his own ground in battle, Gale is not someone she imagines intentionally searching for a fight.)
"Something is different about you," Aela muses when she looks away from the night sky above them. Even now, there is nothing for her to intercept from her half-brother. The golden woman shrugs it away but it does irritate her - Aela who spent the Eclipse sharpening her skills, who had been praised by Heartfire for her wit and perception - that she can't sense anything from the pegasus standing nearby.
He is Dark.
Her pale lips quirk again, an unspoken question hanging between them as she turns to look at him.
