YOU'RE ONLY AS SICK AS YOUR SECRETS
Aela turns her head slightly, looking towards the other foals that had provoked the little colt. She has never been to the Den before, but she has heard stories. She had met others - like hypnotic Allucarda - who had spent their entire foalhoods in this place. The golden Empath might not have been raised by her biological mother and had never known the monster that was her father, but thanks to Kota and Heartfire, Aela had always known that she had been wanted.
She had never been casted off, or left to fend for herself.
It isn’t true for this little boy, though. There are others here who have been abandoned as well but there is something about the fire in this child that calls to her. He is blazing and beautiful; in that moment, Aela would have razed the entire nursery for those that disagreed with her. Thankfully, the young colt does it for her. The closest filly from the insinuating group screams as sparks fly at the end of her tail and mane.
The palomino casts an approving glance down on the youth.
”And what about them?” Aela asks, her lovely face turning towards the direction of where the other foals had stood. Where they had openly mocked the little boy. As far as she was concerned, they had gotten exactly what they deserved. But this a child who is still discovering his gifts and at the same time, trying to discover his place in the world now that his mother had abandoned him to it.
Foolish woman, she condemns the other mare.
”I think what they did was terrible,” she continues, reaching down to smooth out the child’s curling mane. ”And as for everyone else, let them think what they want.” She tells the boy, feeling his ache weigh heavily inside her own slender breast. She can feel the way that he is seeking validation and Aela will give it to him, but not until he learns a lesson that she has had to learn herself.
”What do you think you're destined for?”
@Fyr i give you... maternal aela??