The Heartwood graunsheika

for @Towhee & @Phox! open also to @Ava Amara, @Anathema, @Malakai, @Simeon, and @Dinah <3 no posting order!

the small accompaniment eventually reached the current stronghold of the redhawk wolves. heda, who was exhausted, exhaled a relieved breath as she caught towhee's scent, crouching for a moment at the edge of the forest.
and when she raised her head, it was to gaze back along the way they had come, her eyes fixed in the direction of sweetharbor. 
she had been too harsh! too swift to justice; too — too many things. unfair. her anger at caracal's escape when her only escape was him had overcome her good sense. and she had left judah besides, and almost ana.
"i need to go back," she told them quietly, earnestly, before she let out a howl. towhee would need to be found, but she wanted to announce herself in case others were close. "let's go find grandma, and then i — i need you to stay with her while i go back for judah and — and daddy."