Ilios was a wealth of information, and his words quickly drew Ampere's focus back towards him, her smile genuine as she listened.
"Always a pleasure," she returned not un-truthfully, nodding in response to his own. She noticed his lean towards the stranger, and wondered faintly if they hadn't already formed some sort of relationship. Assuming he had just recruited her, stranger and recruiter tended to form a friendship of sorts; half of the reason any horse joined a new herd was appreciating the horse that led them home - but this seemed like more than
that already. Her grin broadened.
What he had to say however shed a different light.
"She can't talk," he explained, and she blinked, her gaze drifting towards the new girl as if for confirmation. She had found it odd that he introduced her by a nickname, but perhaps she had preferred it. Now she wondered how he'd even
chosen that name because clearly the girl hadn't.
Then, was their closeness also because of pity? She remembered how protective Einarr was over the patched up Leadere, how they'd leaned on each other too during that sad excuse of a meeting. Her smile fell into a mild frown.
She might have said something she'd have regretted then, if not for the way the mare's coat danced with new colors and markings, which Ampere only noticed when her gaze had shifted back to her. Even as she frowned her eyes widened in surprise, the blue of her gaze trailing the different splash and spills of color. It reminded her of the way Kygo communicated, each emotion a pungent hue that flashed behind her eyes, painting her mind and her feelings too.
Her mouth opened to ask the girl something, but just then Kygo caught up to her, to them, as if summoned by her thoughts of him.
"ELLO!" Kygo repeated proudly as he circled over them all on quick wings, trilling his own greeting that echoed Ampere's words, and her voice too.
"ELLO ELLO ELLO!" he squawked, while sunbursts of happy and self-congratulating oranges purples blossomed in Ampere's head. Her ears fell flat instantly, Her open mouth swiftly twisting into rebuke.
"Shut up!" she commanded of him, but this only seemed to encourage the conure, who quickly shifted to parrot-shrieks, as if he were arguing back with her but hadn't yet learned her words to use. Thoroughly embarrassed, Ampere's anger melted away, her feathers which had ruffled up smoothing out as she struggled for composure.
"Sit here if you must you silly bird!" she exclaimed, offering her withers to him since he had no tree nearby to perch on. He gladly took her offer, normally not allowed to touch her.
He quieted easily as he flapped onto her hide, a single happy trill gurgling from his thought as his tail feathers wagged. He set about to preening himself, still proud, while Ampere huffed.
"Sorry," she murmured, her sights set back on the two before her.
"I was going to ask, Lani is it? I was going to ask if your colors had any certain meaning - Kygo here, when he communicates to me likes to use certain hues for certain feelings - not always the ones I expect either." Kygo's head turned rapidly at the sound of his name, his feathers puffing up as he bobbed his head back and forth as if dancing.
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