Aura nodded her head thoughtfully, remembering how a weretigress had been one of her darts-thrown-blindfolded suppositions about Rose, "Ahh! I'd wondered if perhaps, your mother's kind were somehow descended, 'diluted', or related to lycanthropes...I'd heard there were both the sort who 'contracted' it with bitten, and those born to it, and always wondered how it wound down through generations. If it's any consolation, I haven't worried about you biting," she winked.<br/><br/>She went wide-eyed and threw herself down onto a courtyard bench when Rose revealed that she'd been stranded in the Lower Planes for some time - suddenly, Aria counted herself lucky just having a bit of the blood, and shuddered at the thought of being a prisoner to or hounded by such beings during her own lifetime. She subconsciously clutched at her holy symbol through her armor while she listened, but then relaxed the hand and waved it sideways by way of saying it wasn't Rose she felt she needed to ward herself against. "That's terrible!" she replied. "Hmm, well...it is rather<em>fascinating</em>, too! I'll warn you that if we ever are among those of the Lady of Strategy, there are paladins among her number, but I'll make sure they don't get any...wrong ideas. Now, from my own experience, 'tis not only untrue the muckracking claims that they slaughter will-nilly any with the wrong aura to their eye, indeed, my understanding is any who sought to would soon Fall....but suffice to say, there might be a misunderstanding or cold shoulder otherwise. In fact there are quite a few<em>between</em>those of my faith - there exist the dark-hearted who revere her as well, such as priests and knights who hire, or I might say whore, themselves as military advertisers to narcissistic would-be tyrants and conquerors."<br/><br/>"I'm relieved, Rose,that your time...down there...didn't twist your heart and mind. In truth I feel you'd be a good influence upon almost anyone. If you could come through such a thing, I suppose I ought'n't worry about an eighth of my own blood. Hmm, in case it somehow comes into your tactical considerations later, I believe this erinyes lacing of the flesh has left mine a bit less sensitive than most to burns and cold, though to far less a degree I think I notice in yours today, and electricity as well. These things I've noticed in past fights, and a few incidents growing up amidst fire or blizzards. I also found I could cause something I touched to evoke darkness around it for a time, leastways, if well rested since I'd done so before. Though to be honest, as a tactic, I generally find it to interfere with my own aim more than anything else." She shrugged her shoulders. "Oh, and I could always see in the dark, like a dwarf. Apparently that too can be cast to permanence upon onto oneself...something the lady was thusly unable to sell me on!" she grinned.<br/><br/>Her hazel eyes and then chin flew up, as a pegasus passed through the rosy sky overhead, bound in the oceanfront's direction if she had her orientation right. As its angle changed, a richly dressed man or celestial could be seen to be riding the winged equine, and a much smaller pixie-like creature was flitting alongside them.<br/>