Mazikeen feels no pull back to Hyaline - she is too glad that they are outside of the mountains. Though Gale was skilled at distracting her from it in their home, her restlessness eases out here. Even if the chaos they might cause is small compared to what he had once taunted her with and what she thought about to excite him. She catches his thoughts about using her pain to give himself more power and wishes he would - they’d promised no more deaths, but he had given her immortality so death wouldn’t even be permanent (not that it had ever been for her).
Her thoughts churn in so many directions. She wonders if they have somehow tamed each other and then before that thought can even settle in her mind her eyes catch on the west and she feels the desire to fly to Tephra right now. To go get her daughter, to do something, instead of waiting around for others to do it just to curry favour with Gale.
The birds that Gale startles out of the trees and the ease that enters his mind distracts her from where her thoughts were drifting and brings her back into the present. Her eyes, borrowed from a wolf, spot the movement below.
Her gaze connects with Gale just for a short moment before she descends - her restlessness not letting her hesitate any longer. She doesn’t even feel that same pleasure at him deferring to her. If she must wait to go get Sickle, she is not waiting for this. She shifts into a pale wolf when she lands downriver from the dappled grey stallion - a snarl escaping her. Much to her delight - he does not run but instead shifts as well - into a large grizzly bear that roars back a challenge.
Even with her host of shapes that she could become, many of them bigger and stronger than this bear, Mazikeen wants the challenge. She wants this to feed her unease and Gale’s magic, wants the anger and the fear to stretch out as long as possible so it can drown out everything else, all of her confusing and frustrated thoughts. She doesn’t look for her king, holding a vision of them attacking this bear together in her mind even though she trusts his instincts. They both know what to do, how to hunt, and she launches herself at the grizzly without another thought.
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