They stopped early that night so that they would have a good nights sleep before they truly began on there set road. Vega was surprisingly happy to be out on the road with all these people but was annoyed that her current body didn't allow her to help, matter of fact if she did the opposite. When she approached the pony Bill to help unload the poor animal panicked. She had forgotten that a horse was a animal of prey and she was a predator.
Boromir didn't like her, and that was an understatement. "We should collar it, the animal is dangerous, we don't know when it could turn on us." He said to the others as she watched their surroundings for danger, but when she heard this she was not going to be quiet about it. Aragorn opened his mouth to say what he thought about that but was interrupted by both a angered growl and voice.
"Try it! Human, and you'll lose you arm, I am NOT a mere animal." Vega turned on him, stalking up to him slightly pinning him with an icy stare with those silver gold eyes. She only came face to face with the hobbits in size, which was bigger than most Leopards but her body was all muscle and she could easily made good on her promise. When she saw the he was going to say no more she turned with an annoyed hiss to scan the perimeter once again.
"She may be an animal Boromir, but she has the intelligence of a human. I have never seen such an magnificent creature before." Legolas said as he watched Vega walk the premotor keeping a good distance from the pony, so as not to scar it unnecessarily. And totally missing the shared look between Aragorn and Gandalf that was knowing and slightly surprised at the same time.
"You let your love for nature cloud your judgment, elf. You may be right that her intelligence is uncanny but that only makes her nothing but a monster. Mark my words she will turn on us eventually." Boromir stated before waling off to his bed roll. The three left just watched as Vega left her spot on the perimeter and approached the fire and the four hobbits that surrounded it. They smiled happily at her as she stretched out behind them and they leaned against her and began telling her all kinds of story's about the Shire and the Green Dragon. None of them could ever see her turning against them, especially the hobbits she had taken a quick liking to them in the small time they had together.
It wasn't until late at night and the hobbits had fallen asleep that Vega made any notion that she had heard Boromir's last words known. Aragorn leaned against her side smoking his pipe as he stared at the flames of their fire; he was enjoying this moment for he knew that the further into their journey they went the less they would have.
"Aragorn."
"What is it sister of my soul?" Aragorn asked back running a freehand threw the scruff of her neck. She purred in enjoyment.
"I want you to promise me something. It not something easy but I know you will go threw with it should it happen." Vega said in a privet thought sending, her serious tone had him looking at her questioningly now. "I want you to promise that if I lose my self that you will end me before I hurt any of you."
"Vega I can-"
"No, Aragorn. It is something that you must do if it should happen. I do not want any here to be hurt by me should my curse take me. I could not bare that." She said and laid her head in her brothers lap. "You are the brother of my soul, and my greatest friend I do not wish to ask this from you but I must. The stone that holds my sanity is damaged, and should it and my strength to hold myself here fails… I do not want to harm anybody. Please Aragorn." Vega almost pleaded. There was a long moment of silence then a tromndiouse sigh that broke it.
"Alright sister, I promise. Should you fall and we find no way to pull you back, I will stop you." Vega gave a feline smile but her eyes were sad but light, with out that worry she could rest easy. She licked Aragorn's cheek affectionately and rubbed her cheek against his while purring before curling her tail around his waist and forcing the ranger to relax again.