Belrun returns to her room.

She looks out the window and there's a Companion there again. Still? She doesn't know how to tell them apart.

:Are you one of the Companions who'll talk to other people or nah?:

:Hey! It's still me, so, yes: The mare trots over to her window. :Everything all right?: 

:Everything's fine. I just had a meeting where - well, I wound up thinking maybe I should talk to more Companions and not necessarily wait for somebody to present me with one, and you're there. And you helped me and stuff:

:Aww: The Companion bobs her head in an oddly humanlike way. :Well, I'm here and I'm not busy. What sorts of things were you wanting to talk about?:

:I guess I don't have a very specific agenda besides... 'get used to Companions and learn more about how you work'?

Leareth thinks most Companions are reincarnated Heralds. Are you one of those? He says most reincarnations don't keep memories and personalities but Companions do:

Startled look. :...Actually most recently I'm a reincarnated Companion. I think I might've been a Herald at some point before that, maybe, but if so I don't really remember that: 

:Huh! So - not as good memory fidelity as I was led to believe, I guess - whose were you? Whose are you now?:

:I'm no one's right now. I haven't Chosen yet: She doesn't answer the first part. 

:I am aware that Companions are notoriously closemouthed about things and I am prepared to learn to deal with that in order to figure out how to navigate things here better but I would find it helpful if you'd note what you don't want to answer explicitly instead of making it ambiguous if you forgot the question or something:

The Companion hesitates for a while before answering. 

:...I heard the question: she sends finally, sort of wistful. :His name was Lancir. But that was a very long time ago: 

:You can also just - not want to tell me things, it's okay if you don't want to tell me things in addition to having specific Companion reasons to be cagey. It's just I'd find it helpful to have it marked out so I can see where the edges are:

:I'll keep it in mind: 

:What do you do all day, when you don't have a Herald yet?:

:Talk to the other Companions - they still need advice and sometimes just a listening ear. Play with foals. Run the obstacle course. Eat grass: 

Giggle. :Is it tasty?:

:It's not bad! Really new fresh grass is best, in spring. And clover. Clover's really excellent: 

Belrun laughs. :So you don't remember being a human, which I guess means you can't compare and contrast...:

:...Huh, I remember eating cake, so I guess I remember some things? But it's weird imagining eating it now, I don't think I'd like it at all: 

:Huh!

- what's your name?:

:Amshalan. Pleasure to meet you - it's nice, you know, someone talking to me. Mostly no one tries to talk to us: 

:I was aware that I was - thinking about Companions in a kind of unfair way - but it seems weird that the same people who think the world of you as a species aren't thinking of you fairly either and kind of ignore you unless you're theirs specifically:

:I mean, most Companions wouldn't talk back. It's some amount deliberate, being - mysterious, I guess, the way we are: 

:I talked to a Companion once when I was seven and they didn't say anything. - oh, or I suppose my Mindspeech could have quietly awakened already and they couldn't get through my shields, that's also possible:

:Seven would be young for it but not impossible. Jisa was six when she got her Empathy awakening, the others came a little later, and, let me tell you...: 

:Eesh.

Thanks again for grabbing her - I was just expecting you to tell some Herald, probably at one remove, but your way was faster: