[private] keep thinking about those angel eyes

[Aela]

"Turn the tree upside down and you no longer have a tree," Reave's palomino sister counters. She is thinking of Pangea and the way that Straia had met her (unfortunate) demise and the conversation she had following with their grandmother. Remove a branch and the tree could still stand (though she relented that some kind of disease could spread that way). "It is the roots that offer nourishment, that give it supplement." The sun had something to do with as well, perhaps.

But Beqanna had lost their sun and much to her dismay, places like Taiga still existed.

"Cut off that and you can greatly weaken it." The tree might not fall but it could suffer and Aela was willing to settle for that. It could be a place to start. This place is too deeply rooted to topple, Reave warns her and the golden mare accepts this counsel. That might be true. The former Raven Magician is lingering in her mind because she had gone against Carnage and the Dark God had punished her for it. She thinks that the ancient Beqanna entity much appreciates chaos but there is also another part of her that feels her stomach twist; what if He does not?

"My goal is to sow distrust." She tells Reave and she knows that the bone-armored stallion is well aware of her on-goings in Loess and the Pampas. She plans to start there but her ambition is like Heartfire's ability (and his ability) to See. There are many parts of this plan and no corner of Beqanna is immune to it. That rakish smile blossoms across his handsome face and Aela shares another image with him.

Perhaps he has Seen this but his sister gives him a warning.

It is Gale as he devours her heart and her expression remains guarded, because Aela is still discovering the damage that her other sibling has wrought. "I would warn against Hyaline for now," she tells Reave, "unless you think that you are ready to tackle something like that." She continues to watch this relation closely because part of wonders about the possible futures that he has already Seen there. Did he know what would happen to Aela? And had his lack of a warning been intentional?

She decides to forgo applying pressure on how to raze Taiga now. Her blue eyes deepen as she contemplates another future. "What do you See for Tephra?"

@Reave