Redtail Rise drive over the arrows and get a boost in speed

Paging @Avicus and/or @Prophet! @Augur also welcome but Aventus specifically needs a leader who speaks!

Arielle had been gone far too long.

Aventus felt it not only in direct ways — the loneliness and isolation he suffered, the lack of warmth and comfort — but in the ways it affected his sons, too. Would Atreus have grown to be less reticent and spiteful if Arielle was here to provide the comfort he couldn't? The boy spent long hours away from the pack. Aventus feared he would one day fail to return. Would Ancelin be learning herblore from her now and making a name for himself as an apprentice instead of being let down by his lackluster father?

Aventus was not one to worry. He knew how capable his wild wife was. Which was precisely why he was concerned about her prolonged absence; she would never have stayed away this long if things had gone according to her plan. Fear that she might have left him and their sons as a result of his neglect during her pregnancy crossed his mind once or twice, but Arielle was not the type to hide behind a false promise to return.

If she intended that, Aventus believed she would be direct. He didn't think that was what kept her away.

Climbing to a point midway up the rise and trying to ignore the brisk bite of the wind that plucked at his ears and nose, Aventus put out a low call for the leaders, intent on discussing the situation with them.