Redtail Rise Crossing the frontier, 2

She arrives during the taunts, not understood for their words but for their challenge. New Snow prowled nearer but saw her mate swiftly deliver to the trespasser his death. 

Wolverine with him. It was a brutal death, but not undeserved for the mere action of his crossing their borders. New Snows own home clan did not permit such things, and she had inherited their protective streak. New Snow thought of their daughters, even as she observed the outcome of one with nothing short of pride in her own gaze. 

New Snow peered at her mate with that same measure of pride, nosing into the blood and gore that they two had created between them on their persons. Before she set to the task of grooming Mountain Boulder, she would sniff out her claimed daughter for any injuries to be sure she sustained none herself with all the worry and care of a mother. 

It was in this way that New Snow seemed to publicly claim the girl in her gentle fussing. One daughter long ago lost, but another long ago had also been gained.