Redtail Rise I do what I want when I feel like it

Arion, as always, was to the point about his thoughts. Saena appreciated that about him. There was no dancing around an issue, no tricks, no confusion with words. He stated the way she felt about the storm brewing on the horizon: it's ugly. Saena, and indeed any animal worth its hide, didn't need to be a weather expert to know that it was dangerous. The quiet on the airwaves was foreboding enough to tell that tale, plain as day.

"We'll make sure the pack gets to safety," Saena told him. She trusted Arion to help with this, though all it should take was a howl. He was beta quality and lately she and Reek had been treating him like it, as she did now. "The movement of surrounding clouds tells me it's going to the coast. We should shelter in case it rains, but we should otherwise be okay."

She swallowed and silently added, I think.