Redtail Rise Rally

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he did not see support in the lines of wolf-bodies for the caru but augur's affection remained.

red woman had gone. two times she had given children to the rise. now they grew in strength and would hold the territory she had founded no matter their role.

in this, each of them maintained their own importance. and when spring came again, one of them might be wealda.

sun jaw spoke and the ulfhedinn listened. the tone of his words were for thorn caller. augur watched him for any signs he too meant to fight, but saw none at this moment, and none from skin tooth.

wolverine denied thorn caller with a simple sound, and the huntleader stepped forward with his tail waving, scenting the air between them to ensure it did not turn sharp.

he gestured to the little blackfang who had come to join their convocation, for he too was a part of the future which red woman had created.

all redtail.

all blooded to the land.

yet blood meant nothing without tooth to hold it, and wolverine had proved herself for the role multiple times despite the fact her birth had been outside the rise.

augur looked to thorn caller, wondering if a challenge would come forth all the same now that sun jaw had given his support.

but if blood star would not fight again, it must be new snow who accepted this test, for only the ulfr held the rights and ability of breeding as the pack's now sole mother.

these conflicts could not continue. if they continued to vie, the tension in the rise would fracture them. 

they needed an alpha female, as was the organized structure of any wolf-group. red woman's absence had now left a key vacancy that in augur's mind could only be held by birthing new blood  into the land. it was his natural right to place his mate there at once, but he felt he had aptly and already preserved his own lineage, that he and she had bound themselves intrinsically to the pack.

therefore he was willing to wait more seasons, in honor of red woman and the line she had begun. she would want it made formal with grandchildren to carry her genetic stamp.

yearling females often shouldered their way against one another more than once. young males tested both the older wolves and their peers. augur could only envision more tension were he to place a young wolf there, for the position would not be secured in the way that red woman had done.

if the continued gap in the top of their ranks continued to stress his young, he would appoint new snow, for he felt her kind loyalty would settle the redtail wolves and remind the young of their place inside the hierarchy as yearlings who must earn what their mother had earned through tooth and maternity.