Redtail Rise the premature burial

Ashlar couldn't help reacting when she killed the fox. It was probably right to do so quickly, but things like these would never be as the hunt to him. It was different in a way he could not give words. The song never had come to him.

He could tell what it was; there was only one thing it could be. He'd never helped with a birth but baba had spoken of how. These ones wouldn't live without their mother, though - and as kind as Ashlar was, he would never go so far as to suggest they attempt raising them.

It's.... she was pregnant. he said quietly, suddenly uncomfortable again. He could feel the eyes of this new man on him, someone he hadn't met. And then there was Tulimaq, a brooding shadow that never seemed to approve. Medicine was his arena, but death wasn't. His posture shifted subtly, but he stayed in case Avicus needed more. She'd called for him... but he felt, abruptly, out of place.