Redtail Rise We are close to war.

Once again the pair fell to silence. Riley truly did not mind; it was a comfortable shared camaraderie — she lost in her thousand-mile thoughts, he herding his own as if restless cats fallen in a river.

He started as she spoke again, retrieved from his own thoughts. While they did not quite touch base on the topic of Augur, he had been thinking about his own future in the Rise.

He raised his paw and gave it a half hearted shake. All healed. Though tough ground occasionally stung, Riley would hide it. Let’s go.