Redtail Rise Let The Feast Begin

the gradual sloping nature of the Rise is a boon; it allows one to see down toward their more vulnerable borders when standing upon a ridge, as she had been today. even at this distance, she can sense the tension—and she need not sense it to know the shadow for an intrusion.

but it takes a while before she gets there, and the woman's mocking voice comes to her on the wind.

Avicus pulls up alongside her war chief and sends a nearby group of crows to startled flight, baring her teeth. leave. now. the words are clipped, and her ragged tongue flicks out, snake-like. 

one word from the stranger was one too many.