[private] It's been awhile since I first saw you

[Aela]

She entices a small smile from Obscene and she tilts her blazed face towards his. She gives him that familiar coy one in return, hoping that it might encourage him to take them both out of Sylva sooner rather than later. His muzzle lingers near her slender neck and Aela relaxes in his attention, allowing his touch to distract them both for a moment. The palomino nearly glows as she basks under his attentive touch.

But where her mind might wander is called back. She feels it; that sensation of Magic nearby.

It's powerful, whoever wields it. And suddenly, the contented mare becomes alert. Her blue eyes pierce the treeline, scouring it for the source. They find Sabra quickly enough and her gaze is skeptical as it lingers on the maroon mare. She hadn't looked like that at all, the last time they had encountered each other. Aela had been preparing herself for the wild, erratic presence she had met in the Forest that day.  The limb is still there, grotesque and protruding from her chest. Still sensing the source of magic nearby, Aela refrains from allowing her expression to curdle into something besides indifference. She follows Obscene's advice, focusing on the offending limb instead of the Sylvan leader.

Aela allows the Pampas Prince to make the formalities for them both as she tries to sort through this mystery.

And when he recalls the memory of meeting Sabra, of how she asked him to be boring, the golden Seneschal finally steps onto the scene. "You?" she says teasingly, looking up the dark brute from beneath her lashes. "I would call many things but boring is not one of them." Aela continues and then smiles towards the color-changing woman, being careful to avoid her eyes. She is growing more irritated by the minute because this is like Hyaline all over again; Sabra is entirely unreadable to the empathic Aela.

Never one to concede to a challenge, the striped mare brazenly asks: "What has Sylva been entertaining of late?" making it sound as if a forest full of dark entities must be considering something, especially if they once insinuated that the Pampas-usurping Obscene might have been boring.

@Obscene @Sabra