the woods are lovely dark and full of what?

As she reaches her snotty snout towards his locks, she is whole-heartedly shocked when he spins around, leaving her small, stumpy teeth to snap shut on nothing but air and whipping her with his tresses in the process. The babe stands numbly for a moment, utterly confused as to why he wouldn't let her touch him. Shocked, really. Aurelia had never reacted like that before, it was perplexing for the infant. Having Aurelia as a dam came with its own set of difficulties and complications. Being raised by a mare who had no idea about social norms or basic etiquette meant that Aei'ith also had neither of those things. That, added with the fact that she is practically a newborn, leaves little room for normalcy in any her interactions with others. Not knowing what to do with a stranger, she just treated him like she would Aurelia- which was apparently a large boo-boo. As his body spins around to face the babe, Aei'ith's eyes grow wide with wonder at how he is able to flawlessly move around on his legs so gracefully. She would never be able to do that. She was awkward and stumpy due to her mother's mustang blood, but at the same time lanky because she was so young. Her knees were larger-than-life and her head was unproportionally small, with two buldging milky-white eyes. Her appreciation of him and self-deprication of herself abruptly ends when he gnashes his skeletal teeth at her, the air projecting from his strange glowy snout. When he had begun spinning around, she had halted abruptly to just miss chrashing into him, but she wasn't far enough to feel safe as he gnashed his teeth aggressively at her mere inches away. Her frail legs begin moving madly as she backpedals a few steps away from him, her jaw hanging open in wonder and fear, her eyes outstandingly wide, her tail tucked tightly to her body like a scolded hound's. Simply watching him, unsure what to do in a situation like this, Aei'ith looks very much like a deer-in-headlights. She is unsure what to do with the threatening creature before her, frozen in fear. Every part of her body is telling her to leave, but she doesn't know where to go or how to get out and she does not want to be alone. And then he speaks, his voice threatening and un-kind. He scolds her for sneaking up on him and a glint of confusion crosses over her features. Sneak up? She had done no such thing.  The babe had, in fact, done the exact opposite- screamed for his attention. Still, she had been scolded and it felt wrong to argue with him so her gaze drooped downwards to the ground, the excitedness and energy within her waned, and she nodded, avoiding all and any eye contact. Neither of them moved after this and Aei'ith was not going to be the first. Despite her company's aggressive demeanor and shady looks, she would prefer to be with him than alone in the dark forest. Should he be some sort of monster in disguise, plotting to kill her, so be it. The babe would not fare well alone in the forest, so if it meant she was brutally murdered by the creature, she would take that any day over a lonesome death due to starvation or disease or the scarier Rift monsters. * * * @Varuna (thank you neo for unarchiving <3)