Elara tilted her head to the side, curious and apprehensive both with Cyne launching into this new discussion with her about magic and at his first mention of how they theorized magic worked being from the soul, the light and mirth in her eyes flickered and evaporated and her mouth pressed into a thin line. She privately agreed with the analysis that her kind could not create magic due to their lack of a soul to pull the very basic elements of magic. Her head tilted to the side as he added the bit about not all humans having magic might be caused by someone having either a frail soul or a body that could not support the strength of the soul inside.<br/><br/>When he finished, she inhaled heavily and sighed, shaking her head a little, her dark braid falling forward over her shoulder. "Truly, Cyne, your ancestors may have been corrected when they deemed my kind lacking in souls. Caldwyn and his ilk not withstanding, I have seen my own do some truly awful things to yours and even crueller to other vampires, simply because our bodies can..." She paused, searching for a way to phrase it that didn't rankle her but failing. "Withstand such a beating. I'm not saying your people haven't been cruel to mine either, but I have seen the mercy you can have on a battlefield... and the mercy I have." Elara didn't speak of her time under Ava's service with pride, but as a matter-of-fact. "Ava herself killed Generals who disappointed her in the war with your people. I don't intend to be a bleeding soft-heart; that would get me killed the minute I laid my head down to rest tonight, but nor do I intend to continue the senseless constant of death and destruction that has been hammered into my kind from the day my eyes opened."<br/><br/>After she made her impassioned statements, Elara paused, looking around to see if any others had heard her outburst of frustration and desire, but the young one who had taken their beasts of burden to stable had not returned yet and they did not disappear inside the city-palace itself just at the moment.