Redtail Rise you need someone to take your pain for you?

ancelin had been a boy the last time he had seen his mother, a brief glimpse and an end to what he thought would be his father's pain over losing atreus.
but it did not seem as if their family was meant to remain as one. atreus was still gone and now their father had disappeared somewhere into the landscape as well.
ancelin had started to make his peace with the departure of his entire natal bloodline. he had avicus, he had her children. he was connected even if he had acted for a long while as if it were only adjacently 
relic had scarred his face during a challenge, and @Lilia — she had accepted him back, though somehow ancelin still did not know they shared a den.
and now his mother was home, and he felt propelled back to the first moment he had set foot on the rise again after he and his father had failed to bring atreus home or
"arielle." his greeting was not son to mother, but hunter to a packmate, and he wanted her to know he was not going to run to her again or sob or beg her to come back. "you're looking well. it's good to see you back." rote. automaton. "i'm fine." if he let himself feel anything he knew he would be angry and ancelin had been marked for his last outburst.