Redtail Rise ritenuto

There was someone new here? Ashlar froze as she came into view, worried at first that she was an intruder. Did she know there was a pack here?! They'd hurt her if they found her, he thought, stomach plummeting into his toes.

Then he noticed that her scent was not entirely strange. She'd been patrolling the same border he walked along. Ashlar was instantly relieved, though now he wondered how long she had been a part of the Rise. He usually tried to meet newcomers but he'd been feeling a bit under the weather these days.

My name's Ashlar. You're new? He asked this softly, but his tail swished behind him in a friendly gesture of hello.