Redtail Rise XXIX

The sound of her mates call caused her tail to stir. She listened to his song, knowing it’s meaning. She moved to a cache to dig free something that had been hunted not too long ago during her mates absence; to him, she brought meat she had stowed away. New Snow remembered the way of walking alone, and that hunting was hard. It was Winter in full now. Before they left to do what must be done, he would eat. 

And so she came to him with the leg of the cloven-footed stag. It was but a day old (not too long ago indeed!), and though it was not warm she knew they must conserve their energy for the hunt to come. 

New Snow dropped it before his paws and nosed it toward him, and loosed a happy noise to see him still looking hale after his trip. Quick to press the scents of herself and the Rise upon him once more, New Snow licked her chops and did not think of the odds. Only that the Rise stood together against their common enemy.