Redtail Rise my tongue is an axe, and a sword

She could tell he wanted to leave. And if they did, what then? Was it foolish of her to refuse to flee, simply because it would leave the children thinking that she was a coward? She was Berserkr; and she refused to disappear on the pack the way that Prophet had.

She wouldn't leave the children, not the way that Avicus had.

She would relinquish neither her title nor her presence, so as to preserve the integrity of both. The children would know that their Berserkr was a wolf who would not run away when something threatened them. And they would learn that those who loved them would not always disappear on them.

She owed Augur a debt as well; and should Avicus and her children move to cast any non-Redtail wolves aside, she would be there for him to be the protector he had always been for her. They sought out the quiet family, knowing that it was only a matter of time before everything came to a head.