Her gut was telling her that they were close, or maybe it was the scent of the various sisters impregnated along the coast. The fiery adept moved north with her young sister for many days, and they hadn't seen Atreus for quite a while for she had instructed him to look for any sign of the sisters in the opposite direction, but it didn't bother or worry Aella, she knew that the young drudge would find a way back to them rather soon so she kept moving forward, covering longer distances every day as the signals of the sisters whereabouts grew more perceivable.
Thea was out hunting as the older Amazon had instructed her. Aella wanted her sister to become a strong member of Akatiê's deck, and she herself asked the more experienced Adept to help her with that, so she put a series of tasks for her baby sister to make sure she knew how to defend herself.
Without Thea around, Aella thought that it would be a good time for herself to relax in the mother sea, so she made her way out of the bushes that bordered the beach and went straight ahead to the crashing waves thatcooled her as she went deeper in the water. At the time she hadn't noticed the dark female fleshing out pieces of a seal in the near beach, for her scent was disguised with salt and the wind carried away most of it, so she was acting like she was alone, as naturally as possible.
