Redtail Rise High Risk, High Reward

Pawing at a large stone lodged into the earth, she upended it to expose a cool, dark underbelly, which she succinctly raked with both forepaws in an attempt to elicit a response. But this rock was just as stubborn as the last. None of them would even speak to her, let alone tell her their names. She supposed it was possible that she could not hear them, or more likely that they were dead things – like bones and such – yet, she was not prepared to abandon the experiment.

Her stone inspection was interrupted, however, by an urgent summons not heard long after the pining howls of an elk. She was quite busy, thankyouverymuch, but the urgency behind Masquerade’s call drew her into immediate action.

Far separated from the rest of the pack, she was next to last in reaching the scene, arriving just in time to be warned back by Ancelin. She trusted him, posting herself into a lone position beside a tree trunk which shielded her. She was moved somewhat by the colossal beast’s manic eyes but drew a thread of comfort from the scent of rot and the sight of her siblings present around the ring. Tremoring with impatience, she waited for the adults to make their move.