Redtail Rise XVI

cameo!

Avicus had been hunting birds in the brush when Augur's pawsteps belied his arrival. she peers through the thicket, empty-jawed and a little peeved, but happy for her brood to have company. and he's come with gifts.

her brows lift at the girl's explosive sneezes—a habit of hers, it seemed—then her face bursts into a smile at Relic's complete lack of trepidation. he goes immediately for the skull, fierce and hungry, and her heart swells with pride.

Augur. he ought to have fathered one of the three. she wonders which. they'll never know.

she folds herself down behind the bushes, watching quietly, but close enough to intervene should it be necessary.