Bearclaw Valley Friends, or Foes?

toads player gave me permission to skip them! tacking on a conclusion <3

oh, she was seeing red.

her boy -- her little boy -- slumped up as if he were dead!

her ears told her he was still breathing -- evien's ministrations assured her he was still alive -- but in that moment, there was nothing she could do. never in her life had she felt so helpless, so damnably stupid.

a long look to evien -- astara wished more than anything to assist those of ursus who had gone after nyra, but her son needed her now.

so the blackbird hung back, ready on foot, tending to aventus where she could and ready to do whatever evien commanded to see her son safe and well.

later, she would find nyra.

later, she would tear throat from that soft, bloody peak underneath the she-wolf's jaws -- and she and her son would dance, dance, while the beargod bayed for blood and nyra's soul fled the earth with the fangs of ursus coursing after.