Redtail Rise red

He is returning from a scouting trip north, where he had tracked herds and intended to report back upon his arrival. No sooner had he crossed in to the Rise did he hear the drawn call of Avicus; so Tulimaq moved instead to meet it, and marched through the snow.

He saw one figure from afar, but it was not Avicus, although it followed a ploughed path through the snow. The closer he got the more he could make out: a body of prey, and blood frozen in a swath against the ice. Closer still, and the limp form of Avicus against the haunch.

Tulimaq approaches and has already concluded that she is gone. The blood is plentiful enough to have melted the topmost layer of snow; more is falling, clinging to a face planted in to ice. He holds back to watch and to pay respects, and to keep an eye out for further danger.

Unable to see what has caused the bleeding, Tulimaq is concerned there might be something dangerous here. Avicus was a fighter - as close to an Issumatar as he had seen the Wilds produce - and so he is careful and protective as he paces, studying the land for clues.