The sun was barely peeking above the horizon when Ayegali left her temporary camp, packing a small bag with her food and bedding and attaching it to the horse that she had taken from the rest of the tribe. Vtsi, a powerful white Leopard Appaloosa with spots of dark grey, who stood almost as tall as his rider. She and Vtsi were quite a few days ahead of the tribe, riding ahead of them in search of a new home. Tlvdatsi and Tsigili, the cougar and the owl, were acting as her messengers, relaying between the lone Chieftaness and the tribe that was counting on her to find them a new place to settle.


Ayegali didn't manage to reach to the new lands until after the sun had risen straight to the middle of the sky. The scents in the area were different, signaling a new land and new occupants. It made her uneasy though. The scents in the area were heavy and vast, there seemed to be many. Tugging carefully on the beaded rope that looped Vtsi's muzzle, Ayegali pulled her to a stop, taking a moment to gaze at her surroundings through silver eyes. The lands didn't appear to be war ravaged, at least not with the signs that she was used to seeing, and that was the only reason she finally decided to dismount.


Sliding one leg over, the dark woman dropped from the thick blanket on the horse's back, landing with a graceful thud. She gave him a hefty pat with one hand before finally turning away. "Fly Tsigili." The words came in low speech, quiet and directed to the skies. He would scout the area and bring her back the information that she sought. The black woman then reached a dyed hand out to the back of the horse, fiddling for a moment with her pack before retrieving a dried piece of meat and an apple. "We did well." She assured her tired companion as she neared his head, holding out her offering of an apple just long enough for him to take it.

Vtsi took the apple gingerly from her hand, which moved up the side of the horses' muzzle in a long stroke as soon as it was free. Keeping her hand upon him, rested just beneath his ear, Ayegali leaned forward to press her head against his for a moment, showing her appreciation to her friend. She was still where she stood, breathing paced and body calm, the only signal of change being the slight movement of her ears, which tipped forward and cupped outwards. She could hear the quiet of her cougar companion, Tlvdatsi, behind her, though he had yet to show himself since their arrival. He sounded unsettled, which signaled to the dark woman that something was amidst. She kept her eyes forward, listening quietly as she stood against Vtsi.


Before she had a chance to pinpoint whoever or whatever it was that was in the area, the thing willingly showed itself. The still woman moved finally, turning her head to settle her eyes upon the male that emerged slowly from the shadows of the trees. She kept her silver gaze locked on him, intense but still soft in some way, cautious and curious all at once. It was while he spoke that she turned herself away from Vtsi, removing her hand from beneath his ear and bringing it to rest carefully on his neck. She and Vtsi shared quite the deep connection, which was why her hand remained upon him. He had chosen her when she was still but a pup, unable to ride or even understand the concept, and they had been together ever since. He would feel her distress, if there was a cause for any, simply by the gentle hand that she left upon him.


"No." She answered quietly, taking the moments that she spoke to examine him. "We are not from around here." The markings on his face, her eyes lingered on them for a few moments in an attempt to discern what the symbol was, to try and think of what it meant and where it came from, if it was the marking of another tribe similar to her own. "Vtsi and I are from far away, we've been traveling many months to find a suitable home for ourselves and the tribe." Ayegali wasn't the type to simply give away important information, though in the face of possible danger, she found it the wise thing to do to make sure others knew that she was not alone. At least not in some sort of fashion, as the tribe was many days behind her, they would never reach her if she found herself in some kind of trouble.


"I am Ayegali Kala, Chieftainess of the AniWaya Tribe." She offered her own introduction first, she and her companions had been the ones to enter their lands, after all, even if the lands that she stood on were not claimed by anyone particular.

Since Aiden is no longer a character here I figured we could play this off and just finish with the two of them? X3


The raven woman was half expecting the curious male to stick around and try to learn more about them, but just as quickly as he had appeared, he was gone, back into the brush and trees. Ayegali stood for a few moments longer, silver eyes narrowed and watching the brush before her carefully, making sure that the strange male was really gone before turning back to Vtsi. She patted her companion once more, stroking the area just beneath his mane before returning to his side, digging through the packs that he so vigilantly carried for her. She muttered a few quiet words to him in her time sorting through the packs, finally allowing her voice to turn in to something of a hum, retrieving yet another apple from her pack.


She returned to his front then, offering him the apple with a careful smile. When he finally took it, the dark woman moved away, stepping farther out into the lands. The sun was higher now, possibly at it's highest, which told her that it would soon fall and night would come. She and her friend would have to find a place to settle down in the strange new lands, somewhere hidden but also out in the open. A cave of some sort, she decided, staring off across the landscape around them. Her journeys would continue on the next day, her goal to cross the lands and see just how far they stretched.