Redtail Rise buoyant

With the promise of fidelity, Lilia lost the heavy cloak of paranoia she did not realize she'd been shouldering until it had been shed. Somehow, she felt her place was secured, having found a suitable partner even though she had barely reached her first year of life. Her integration into the pack somehow felt more complete, now that one of the wolves born into the pack accepted her as his own. His only.

She felt light as a feather as she whirled away, whisking through the wilderness with her beau at her side. Her laughter pealed like bells, but nothing could have shaken the precious seashell from her grasp. And in her heart, she held Ancelin just as tightly.