Redtail Rise Crossing the frontier

Before their fellow yearlings could maim him, Augur gave the trespasser a mighty (and life-saving) shove, punctuated by a snarl. The bloodied stranger leaped to his feet and darted away, Lilia and Relic in hot pursuit.

Masquerade did not join them, instead shaking out their coat and huffing a breath as they glanced at Augur. They touched their nose to his grizzled chin, glad that he had shown mercy even if the stranger hadn’t deserved it.

With a last glance in the direction the three had gone, Masque rubbed their paws in the dirt to add to the Redtails’ scent markers at the scene of the crime. They then woofed goodbye to the Ulfhedinn and returned to the important task of fetching meat for Avicus and the pups.