An invitation was sounded over the air ahead, the corporal raising her head and ears to observe the sound that ushered from the entryway into the copious mountain valley she called home. Her muzzle breathed in a deep and inquisitive chestful of cold air, smelling a familiar scent blended with that of a stranger, a pleasant smile etching it's way across her lips as she turned back to see if Gemini had heard the nicker as well. She had been checking in on the black unicorns progress occasionally, knowing that the path to the Basin was treacherous for those who were unfamiliar with it's winding and narrow stretch, and believing that one's ability to make their way up it's heights both proved their usefulness and displayed much of their character. It would seem that there would be two new recruits that had surmounted the task of climbing the mountain, and the pleasure that invoked within the golden laced unicorn inclined her to be particularly chatty and full of sunshine on this particular black afternoon...evening. Whichever it was, Illynx wore a jovial and welcoming grin as she entered into the Basin, the lake shimmering and elegant with the Haruspex lit up, it would seem, by a thousand stars all bundled together, various trees within the valley adorned with brightly glowing enchanted orbs.

"Want to go say hello?" she queried, gesturing with her horn to where she saw the others ahead, recognizing the dark bay mare from the herd meeting earlier in the season and admiring her catch as she drew nearer to the pair, not waiting to see if Gemini would follow, but keeping an ear tuned in to where the mare was. The two ahead were rather different from one another; where Lena was plain and elegant, the stallion was shaggy and wild looking, with a short black horn protruding from his expansively fluffy head. The various incarnations of her species never ceased to bewilder her, from ordinary and nearly equine in appearance to the exotic and strange, but she was not off-put by the appearance of this one as she was by those with demonic horn arrangements or other abnormalities. The blue stag was almost ethereal, seeming to stem from a bloodline ancient and old, and Illynx found herself intrigued almost instantaneously. "Welcome and salutations. I am Illynx, and the lovely miss accompanying me is Gemini," she ducked her head in a small bow of greeting and then directed her gaze to the star strewn unicorn that she had just met and saved from a life of romping through a frozen ice patch.