Redtail Rise LIII

blood star.

she had come to join her mother and siblings. augur welcomed her with a tilt of his head.

the tensions settled. 

only a pack could kill a bison. any wolf less was a liability. augur was counting their pregnant cows for a future bounty.

he moved off at a steady and careful lope. they could not test herds of such large beasts the way elk and deer might be run off. bison would stand together. but they would be compromised by their need to graze, and before winter, the weakest would show themselves.