Redtail Rise while the future is fast coming for you, it always flinches first

ancelin shook his head quickly. he was unsure how to unsnarl his father's mood or what he could say to lighten the choking atmosphere beneath which he felt like he had failed. it didn't help that aventus looked rough, gone searching for mama so long and then back to find that atreus had run off too.
"he said the opposite actually. said he'd stay. and — i'm not sure about what happened. but he left the hunt, dad. and i don't think she liked it."
aventus spoke of leaving again. this made ancelin nervous; he licked his jaws. "you know, dad, i — i've been learning to track and move quiet. masque is teaching me. so i could, go with you, you know, um."
the idea of leaving daunted him. the idea that atreus was really gone hurt even more. he hoped so much that aventus would relent. the boy no longer felt like a child.