YOU'RE ONLY AS SICK AS YOUR SECRETS
It's funny how they are alike that way.
Aela had been born sensitive - to the past, to emotions - and she comes from a long line of horses who feel before they think. Perhaps something in her had recognized that from the very beginning, that the only way to protect herself was to keep all those feelings and emotions out. Far better toy and meddle with ones that belong to others because that way Aela never has to think about what she really feels.
She focuses on what she wants; on what she dreams.
Her ambition will take her far. Even Heartfire herself had said this. But she has to be careful. Aim too high and there is no recovering from the fall.
So when the onyx brute with the hungry eyes takes in her, Aela thinks about what she wants. Beqanna has been far too quiet. The Eternal Night had made horses cower in their homes and it would seem that the dark had stayed too long. They were drowsy, sluggish; the world was still quiet even though the sun should have rendered them wide awake. It hadn't and as she takes a brazen step towards the stallion, she thinks that perhaps Obscene and his Meadowlands could help change that.
Desire for her could be cultivated towards something else, right?
This is a game that she's playing, how far this might go between them. Aela's done it before (well, something like it) but there has always been a stopping point. But this is a stakes brought to a new level and so something in her rises to it. The girl is there again - the green-and-black one that seems to haunt Obscene - but it's gone in a blink, leaving only the two of them. She allows him to take in the curve of her elegant neck because it allows her to reach a dark ear, "is this how you attract new recruits?"
He pushes her flaxen forelock out of her face and so she tilts it towards his, "I have a proposition for you." Aela smiles again, murmuring the words where her pale mouth lingers near his a moment too long. She decides its safer to move past his muscled neck and sloping shoulders, to turn her head towards @[Obscene]'s rather impressive physique and ask as she glances back to him: "if I have your attention?"
