Redtail Rise are we living a life that is worth the harm

she deserves his anger—though she's not sure if he's even aware their conversation had been what had driven Atreus off—but will accept the lack of it nonetheless. her brother is deflated; she can hear the hollowness in his voice.

and she understands perfectly his conviction.

wha' if he doesn' wanna come back here? Avicus posits, as if it's a hypothetical. he been away. . .noh' happy— her muzzle is stretched in a frown, tinged with both frustration for her nephew and pity for Aventus.

she cannot have wolves without loyalty to the Rise. and if, should Atreus be found, Aventus chooses to stay beside his son—who had so fervently cast off his allegiance to her—then she will have to count him among their defectors, too.

it will be a sad day, and yet, the writing had perhaps been on the wall since their infancy.