[Taliera]

Taliera's gaze rested unbreakingly upon the other woman for a long moment of silence. This stranger was the real deal. She had strength and skill, and with it she had shown the anyeli that it wouldn't be too difficult to grind her into the dust. Now though, be it a trick or not, that same woman was offering her a chance at something better. One could only get so far in a small training ground where entrance was a very tentative thing. No one wanted her there, and no one would until she was needed. Taliera knew that she was nothing special, only soon to give another tally mark to one side of hatred or the other. Yet, this stranger said that she might possibly have a place with them... Plodding along until she too stood in front of the portal, Taliera pressed her lips together in thought. It was difficult to think with the throbbing in her wing. She says that this tribe will train me to fight. Her mind for a moment turned to how the demonness had spat words in her face of how she should be a peacekeeper for her own sake. That just cause the flame of passion in her to flare up. I am not a useless preacher. Her eyes snapped up with resolution. "Taliera." She did not offer her hand nor did she present a smile. The girl clearly had a no-contact philosophy, the boundaries of how close she let people drawn by the distance that she maintained even now. "What else do you want from me?" Very carefully Taliera's eyes studied the shapeshifter. There must be something else. There always was.