Redtail Rise LIII

Things were as normal as they could be now.

Redd settled back into the rhythm of the pack.  There was still an undercurrent of disturbance, but what had once been a storm was now a murmur.  The tension that had existed since Avicus’ first abdication had loosened within her, and things felt right once more.

Redd had avoided Augur during her time returning out of a mix of deference and pointed disrespect.  To acknowledge his rank, and regain her place, she would have needed to submit.  Yet this she could not do when her mother had been in flux.  She felt it time to remedy this now; he was huntlead, she would be hunter.

She came alongside silently, observing a moment, before closing the gap more and looking towards the herd that he watched.  She kept her posture friendly, but there was a wariness to her too, in the careful distance she kept.  Avicus had accepted her daughter back into the fold, but she would not assume others would.  She would earn her place here once more.