Redtail Rise V

augur followed.

but when he paused it was to look back toward the elk. it was not hunger which drove him. it was the exhilaration.

now he would be careful. the large boy followed after ashlar, punching great holes in the snow. he heard the click of feathers in the trees and the twitching of vole noses below the snow. 

augur looked to blacktail, wondering what his companion would choose.