Redtail Rise IX

after a moment's consideration of the pelvis, she pulls back and joins in Augur's song. it is wonderfully wordless, mournful, heartbreaking. she shuffles closer to him and their shoulders brush as they cry together, muzzles tipped near the sky.

Raven Hollhow, she says, once their call has ceased, gesturing around to name the place as such. name for my ma.

Avicus presses her nose to his cheek, then moves it toward one ear, giving him a quick, gentle nip there. 'hhank you, she whispers, and then moves away, stalking around the pelvis.

a relic. she is not religious—not spiritual, even. flesh and bone is all she knows, and this the latter. . .she treasures it, especially amid the grounds named in honor of Astara.