You think I'll be the dark sky

A voice hit the air directly after Kiada had spoken. Turning her onyx head to view who had spoken, she remembered the pale mare from when her mother had accepted her into the herd. Kiada remembered vividly the outburst her twin had done, and how readily she was to agree with him, only to change her mind and stay rather silent the entire encounter. This time, it was different. She was slightly older than before, stronger, able to handle her own. And Khairi beside her was a welcome addition to the filly who had originally began as a piece of a solid machine that had cast herself on her own route with the yearn to learn. She nodded as she turned her head back to Lena as Zyanya continued on, wishing to help others. Kiada hadn’t known exactly what that meant yet. She vaguely remembered the visit of the black and white Pegasus at her birth and how she helped Mother stand so Kiada and her brother could feed.

Nevertheless, helping people or not, it would be useful information one day. And she nodded gratefully in anticipation when another voice appeared. Her pelt was like the ocean and Kiada took it all in with a sheer amount of wonder, especially watching the little egg at her side that seemed to float beside her. She admitted that she would love to teach them as well and Kiada nodded with a small smile, Khairi puffing his feathers up with the excitement that came through the bond. Kiada’s ivory rimmed ears tipped to the blue mare as she began the lesson, talking of herbs that could help or harm and what they did.

The filly slowly found herself moving closer to Tiamat as she drank in everything. Lena spoke again, distracting the princess filly with her words. She moved swiftly to a plant and motioned toward it, explaining that it was witch hazel and how it could be used. Then, something wonderful happened. A challenge. Kiada studied the way the plant was and looked over to Tiamat for a moment before looking at the area around them. Her oceanic eyes narrowed upon simple grasses that looked as though they had been grazed upon – but then she looked further into it. She looked at what hadn’t been munched on previously, and what had possibly been purposefully avoided. Then, bounding away, she had her eyes set on something slightly in the distance. Her ebony legs took her a bit further away from the group, but when she came up upon the plant she squinted looking down upon it. Khairi bounded up behind her, moving close to the plant and stretching his beak out to touch the stem of the plant. It was a bush with rather spikey leaves and branches – kind of similar to the familiar pines that dotted the Basin. But in abundance to the spikey leaves, she spotted berries that nestled within different levels of the branches. Tilting her head slightly, she inspected the blue berries that grew rather largely upon the twigs holding them up as they bent to accommodate the weight.

Standing tall and proud, little lions began to dance across her back in the form of fire as she turned to look upon Tiamat and Lena with a wide grin across her pink splotched lips. “I found something!” She proclaimed, standing proudly. She only hoped it was actually something useful.

"Talk."

so you can be the star? —

I'll swallow you whole.

Kiada