Redtail Rise L

Riley remained clueless to their purpose until Augur paused among a small clearing of burned forest edge. He drank deep of the scents here, noting foremost that of lesser creatures.

The male's watchful gaze communicated expectation.

Riley stepped carefully into the stemmed grass. The smell of timothy grass and fescue rose to his nostrils - but there, occasionally on a bent blade, was a molecule of mouse scent.

He hunkered down, watching a small hole in the veldt intently.