Redtail Rise where'er i walk ten thousand serpents follow at my feet

ancelin was ready, hardly wanting to wait for winter to be over before he and lilia struck out on their own. he watched augur carefully, ears and tail low, but aside from a tiny bit of dismay, the powerful man seemed to embrace the concept of their future departing.
"thanks, augur," the young wolf breathed out, bumping muzzles with the hunt-leader. lilia assured him that the rise and their own creation would be allies.
ancelin was pleased by this but for one thing: he wanted to be so far from the rise he wouldn't meet another redtail cousin unless he sought them out.
perhaps it was a vestige of rebellion, a rejection of atreus for having left in the same way. ancelin's home was in lilia now; wherever they went they could make it happen, and he was bound to her pawsteps, not a bloodline which he had never been able to wield.