Redtail Rise Obey your master

Her horror with herself intensified when someone much larger charged onto the scene and immediately snatched her by the scruff. Masquerade didn’t put up a fight, her eyes screwing shut and her body going limp as he put her in her place. She couldn’t stifle the thin whine that escaped her, nor suppress the trembling in her muscles. Even when he eventually released his hold on her, Masque remained cowed, the picture of repentant submission.

She didn’t even see her victim—her own cousin—marching toward her. Masque only lifted her gaze infinitesimally when she heard Avicus arrive on the scene, a flurry of furious words pouring from her tongue. Fearing the Wealda’s wrath, she didn’t think so much as act out of sheer self-preservation. She rolled onto her side, then her back, her belly exposed except where her bleeding tail tucked against it.