Redtail Rise the colloquy of monos and una

It was when the red woman's eyes fell to Augur, and looked at him as less of a man, that she found herself simmering with anger. She moved, then, to his side because in Augur, she saw the strength which had held the pack together through all of it. He had known what was right when Avicus had tried to declare her own son as Berserkr. He had weathered the role of leader when she had stepped down, and had welcomed her abandoned children to be raised alongside his own. 

He had been there from the beginning. He had been there when they had gone on a wild manhunt, and he had been there to raise two litters of children. He had seen Prophet and Ashlar- his contemporaries- leave the pack, and he had seen the children grow and learn. He'd watched Avicus and her children disappear with little or no explanation. He had indeed been there for all of it- and that didn't just make him a powerful ally- that made him a powerful leader.

It was madness to give him the notion that this was not his home.

She brushed her nose to his cheek. She got the sense he'd distanced himself, but she knew that she'd meant what she had said when she and Ancelin had informed him that they would be leaving. So long as Augur had a part in leading the Rise, they would always be allies. She realized now something that she likely should have recognized some time ago- that even if all others had failed, that Augur would hold them together. An excellent hunt-leader, but a leader of wolves as well.

"You can live he-uh, an' die he-uh, but no mattuh how many timeth you thay it, you are not our Wealda." Lilia said. She grazed her nose against Augur's jawline, tail finally relaxing enough to flutter behind her in a show of good faith, before she looked back toward Avicus. 

"He ith."