Redtail Rise piercing

NS is skippable—here to defend daughter!

New Snow, too, late on the scene—she arrived with a terrible snarl loosing from her throat as she saw her daughter, bloodied. She battled between the desire to kill him, and protect her—

It was Mountain Boulder that decided for them. She was grateful for him, and motivated him with another snarl that commanded he repay the debt ten times over if he could. New Snow stood before her daughter, and the Caru, a bristling barrier—the hunted man would find no weak spot in the girls, not without facing the mother first. 

But she did not think he would even get past the father.