Akeya took note of how Lumina seemed to be troubled by her words. That wasn't too surprising: the Rose Dragoness was going through some rather heavy stuff right now, so of course she wouldn't like being reminded of it, and in general she'd be more easily aggravated by everything. What did surprise Akeya, however, was that Lumina's aggravation included the plants around her dying. She'd have expected Lumina's strong emotional state to result in another sudden growth in the plants, possibly an even more aggressive growth. For the plants to start dying instead must mean that Lumina is draining them of their life force rather than making her magic go wild. Which, all things considered, was probably an improvement but still made Akeya wonder about what kind of powers Lumina exactly possessed at this point. Both growth "Thedecay? Maybe only the plants that she herself had created...
Well, regardless, that wasn't important right now. From the looks of it Lumina was calming down somewhat as well, the plants around them (the ones which hadn't just been drained of life) seeming to become calmer and no longer showing hostile traits. That was good, since Akeya would hate to have to fight here when she instead could solve the issue by just making sure Lumina regained her control. The shadow dragoness raised an eyebrow when Lumina explained that death was part of the cycle by feeding new life. That was true, but Akeya was pretty sure that still meant that the originally living things stayed dead... She could argue with Lumina about that later. For now, just help the other dragoness out so the people of Magnolia were no longer in danger.
"I'm glad that you are accepting the change rather than rejecting it, but I suspect that one of the reasons that you lost control over your power is that while consciously you realize this should happen, a part of you might still be resisting, if only out of shock. And as you said yourself, the change was sudden and painful, so you might need to put some more effort into adjusting to your new form before your control comes back." Akeya was pretty convinced that some part of Lumina's trouble with controlling her magic came from some kind of conscious or unconscious resistance. Akeya's own transformation hadn't been the most pleasant, with wings and a tail forcibly forming on her back, but her control had carried over rather smoothly. Maybe it was another example of the difference between a pure dragon and a mixed breed dragon? Akeya could tell that Lumina was no longer a pure Rose Dragon, which was a bit of a shame. Maybe being a mixed breed resulted in her powers being less balanced and stable, so during the shocking transformations they went haywire and Lumina would have to train to control them.
"The mission is to keep the plants from harming anyone. Destroying the forest is not the actual objective, only if necessary. That doesn't mean I couldn't do it anyway, but I am pretty sure you would prefer it if I didn't take that option." Lumina's teasing tone somewhat flew over Akeya's head as the shadow dragoness instead gave the earnest and true answer. The plants were a threat, so the threat would have to be dealt with. Whether that would be through annihilation or pacification was entirely up to her. Normally she might just have decided to go with the annihilation since it would be rather easy to just burn the forest down, but as a Rose Dragon Lumina would disapprove of that almost certainly. "You should be able to pacify this forest with some more effort into regaining your control, so we'll focus on that instead." Akeya's tail swayed from side to side. "This'll work best if you're calm and with a positive mind." The next part might help with that somewhat...
"I hope she'll return at some point. She knew a lot about your situation, so her presence would be helpful, but not absolutely necessary." Mayu was quite the useful little dragon, having known about Lumina's past more than Lumina herself. Well, she would most likely return soon: Lumina and Mayu had been quite close, and there was little reason for that to have changed unless Mayu had disapproved of Lumina becoming more than just a Rose Dragon.
The next part, about what Lumina had been doing... "I'm curious if you are still hoping for that, or if in the meantime you have changed your mind regarding me. As I mentioned before, it would be pleasant to have another dragoness about, especially one who's in the middle of her transformation just like myself." Dragons were solitary creatures, so being separated for prolonged periods of time wasn't too strange. Of course they still liked having their mates nearby, but they weren't as needy as humans in that regard. So far as Akeya was concerned if Lumina still wanted to continue with her courting she was completely free to try. "You have changed quite admirably, so that's a plus as well. Although I must warn you that things have changed in Blue Pegasus as well. Quite drastically, and you'll have to accept that you're not the only one who gets to play with me." She smirked. "Of course, you'll still be of the highest rank, since as a dragoness you deserve that, but you'll still have to live with sharing."
"Now, for regaining your control... would you rather do it here, or should we go to another place and leave this one be? Without your influence the plants here can't keep up their behaviour forever, since plants aren't meant to behave like this. I could be wrong, but I'm quite sure that once your magic is gone the forest will rebalance itself into something more natural and harmless." Akeya could see that Lumina's magic was influencing the forest, but she couldn't actually see whether Lumina's removal would have that kind of effect. Plants shouldn't be this active, so it made sense to her that they were using Lumina to be able to move this much. Then again, they could be capable of staying active independently, or removing Lumina might just kill the entire forest outright.