Redhawk Caldera i loved you first

funeral for bronco @Amalia @Ponyboy @Boris @Glee @Frolic

assuming NPCs are present! no posting order! will prob do two rounds

in the end, teya chose the maples overlooking the caldera beneath which to bury bronco.
she no longer wanted to lead. she no longer wanted to be here. helping to carry her husband to his final resting place sickened her until she all but vomited into the foliage nearby.
he would be here forever now, as sentinel over brecheliant.
oh, she loved him; she loved him; she knelt even now in the richly turned soil and sobbed heartbroken cries into the loam itself, as if it would rouse bronco.
but he did not rise.
and her pain fractured the woman irreparably.
ibis. bridget. reyes. bronco — all gone.
wraen, ukelele, reyes, bronco — would not come back.
in time teya's weeping turned toward sorana, the one she had truly failed.
eyes swollen, at last she rocked back and knit arms around her midsection, and crooned helplessly a final time before she stood, debris falling from her pelt, and called the pack.
teya blackthorn was ready to be done with this place of loss, ready to ensconce herself a last year somewhere, anywhere, until her children grew and she could —
maia, then, close; teya clung to her. eljay as well, his eyes soft with grief. callahan loomed behind his parents, and she was stricken to think that all the children too would suffer.
teya waited for the others, the scent of good fertile earth filling her nostrils until it threatened to choke her, a funeral bouquet for a man who would never whisper his love to her again.