Checkpoint: Alpha

AURELIA The group, that had just been Aurelia and Otem moments ago, began growing and expanding. The first horse to join is a champagne pegasus stallion. He's taller than Aurelia and easily asserts himself into the conversation, siding with her as he expands on her thoughts to Otem. He briefly mentions how the horses of his homeland forged their own society, and Aurelia nods eagerly- it'd been like that in her original home, too. He then goes on to interrogate Otem with a bunch of questions. The gold-dappled pegasus simply shifts her gaze from the stallion back to Otem as his last question leaves his lips. All of the questions he asked were valid and needed to be answered before anything was to be arranged here. Next to join them is a pegasus stallion whose build remarkably resembles Aurelia's own. He seems to be about the same height as her too, but that is where the resemblance ends. He is darkly colored with a myriad of blue markings. He seems remarkably lost in the conversation, and Aurelia is about to answer his question when another horse shows up and answers it for her. The new addition to the group is a black, gold, and white unicorn. After giving a one-sentence summary to the lost stallion, she introduces herself as Kiada. Aurelia offers her own name in response, her head dipping kindly in the process. "Aurelia," she says plainly. Kiada then goes on to say that she thinks a gathering place is a good place to start, but Aurelia believes that however premature the formation of a herd may be, that it was somehow necessary to the healing process of the Rift. Alliances, plans, saftey would all benefit the land, she wasn't sure how, but somehow it had all begun to click together after her discussion with Taivus. Though Aurelia had vehemently disagreed with Taivus, some of what she said did make sense. The land would heal as its inhabitants simply lived on it. At first, this idea had been so foreign to Aurelia, but perhaps part of her began to understand (though she would never admit this to Taivus). "Yes, the formation of an entire herd may be premature," she agrees before continuing. "And a gathering place is a good start, but more will need to follow quickly." As she says this, her aurelian eyes spot the approach of Rixen, the pegasus stallion she'd met days earlier. Their group was small, but it was growing by the second. Soon there would need to be more. "I think most of us can agree that at least a gathering place would be beneficial," she scans the crowd, searching for anyone who disagrees to find out why. "Otem's proposed idea is certainly a good one." Now she looks at the tribrid who so energetically had called for this meeting. It was definitely not a bad idea, and Aurelia made it known she did not feel as though it was one. Aurelia just felt as if it needed more weight. Still, she was okay with being told the subject of herds was far too soon to discuss. "And if we all agree we need at least some sort of.. whatever this is," she said, gesturing with her whiskered snout to the group that had formed. "We need to discuss the logistics. When will we meet?" Calling the meeting now had certainly worked out for Otem, the turn out was great and it'd only been a few minutes but in the future would random callings work? "Who will call the meetings? One designated person, or whoever has something important to say? Or do we just meet on set days at set times?" As everyone probably did, Aurelia had questions and questions. "We should decide this all now. Otem," once again her attention focused solely on the mare. "You called us all here... what do you think? Did you have any ideas?" She'd spoken enough for now and fell silent as she waited to see what the others said and how they felt about everything that was being proposed. Aurelia was certainly not the 'leader' of this group, nor did she intend to be, but she was extremely vocal, unafraid to ask the pressing questions as the champagne stallion had begun to do moments ago. Some of the horses were quieter and hadn't shared their opinions yet, Rixen and the blue/black stallion, but others had begun to freely vocalize their concerns and ideas, the champagne stallion, Kiada, Aurelia, and Otem. For this to work, everyone needed to speak up at least a little. No suggestion was a bad suggestion. à la folie; to madness

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