Redtail Rise — dragon's did

this felt like a good place to wrap up. <3

bobcat's ears twitch as the flame-marked girl sends up a howl: for his parents he quickly deduces, snatches up her catch and scrambles away. he slow blinks after her retreating form, scowling. he tucks this interaction away, storing it in the banks of his memory, determined not to forget it. the retreat — a sign of weakness in his mind — and the refusal. the betrayal.

logically, it was only a matter of time until one of his parents came to scoop him up — if they hadn't already been on their way to do so prior to masquerade's call. bobcat is not half as stealthy as his ego would allow him to believe — at least not yet.

it his his mother that arrives, nudging food to him. sourly, he takes it, still smarting in the rejection of his desire to play. he gnaws at it angrily, stripping flesh from bone without much care for the mess he was making. and when he was beckoned to return back to the birth den he would follow along, albiet begrudgingly.