Redtail Rise ready to start

it was interesting, ancelin decided, watching how someone else approached in forested places. 
but then she was coming back toward him, and quickly; he held his breath, trying not to flinch as wingbeats filled the air. the kid seemed mesmerized. ancelin stared at her through the interlocked branches. had he ever been like that, so full of — hmm. no word for it. 
finally he stepped out of the clustered boles, shaking pine-needles from his coat and offering her a cough, "now that you know how to flush a bird, you want me to teach you how to catch one?"