He can barely keep from rolling his eyes as he is scolded for attempting to get this mare, an apparent Priestess of the tree, to move away from it to safety. The verbal threat makes his lips twitch briefly with amusement. (I could transform and rip you in half before you finished speaking), he thinks to himself. Fine, let her stay here with it, she can just keep circling it in her panic until she burns to death. He had tried to help her, but if that's what her purpose was supposed to be, Siberian doesn't exactly know her well enough to be able to argue with the other stallion, Nymphetamine, about it. The black stallion starts to move off, to go wait all of this out in the caves, but stops when another horse appears, a colt whom he doesn't know (though this is hardly a moment of revelation when you don't know *anyone* except your handler/corrupting manipulator) and he listens to his greeting with a bit of confusion. They are rapidly joined by a third male, this one clearly *not* from the Chamber, as he is dragging a nameless resident mare with him, and he quickly murders his captive, taunting their small group over her fallen body and caved-in skull. The bear roars in Siberian's head, so filled with rage that is a wonder he isn't driven to his knees by his other-self's fury. The invading horse charges now, at Nymph, screaming about him being a traitor. The Budyonny knows nothing about what had transpired between the two of them to cause this accusation. Perhaps Straia had deployed a double agent in the months leading up to the war? Siberian's luck being what it is (an unmitigated freakin' disaster!), Zayn chooses that moment to show up as well. He gives his toy-weapon a disapproving stare, no doubt because the bear-shifter was here in the gathering area instead of off being set on fire and chewed upon by dragons and other crazy-impossible yet existing things.
The boy is surprised to be spared an actual scolding and issued orders as the palomino sabino instead chooses to fling himself into the fight developing between the Gates buckskin and the Chamber bay. Nymph tells him that he should guard the Tree and the mare, not that he has any authority to be giving Siberian orders when Zayn is present, but he shrugs and complies, not having been directed to be doing anything else by his puppetmaster. Another mare appears, this one accompanied by a pair of children, and he wonders if this area is going to end up more populated than the actual battlefield was. She rushes in herself, taking a blow for the apparent Chamber spy, who was busy revealing his true story to the buckskin as they fought. He turns his head to check on Shaytan, who was still with the tree, and seemed to be alright for the moment, then looks back at the children. Their mother had shouted at them to get to safety. Would they come to him? Siberian first does what he had not wanted to do, he shifts into his grizzly bear form for the added size and strength it brings, but also bringing the ferocious part of himself into his mental front-and-center, always a struggle to keep balanced with his rational, calm horse-brain. It hadn't always been this way. When he was a child, the bear-form was little more than a glove he could slip on, he was always himself in it; but now after years of Zayn's conditioning, he is akin to the berserkers of legend. He manages to push the bear away from control, calling out to the children in as friendly of a voice as he can manage. If they choose to come to him, he will keep them safe in addition to Shaytan and the vision-tree.
Siberian
The sexy grizzly boy of Beqanna