Redtail Rise Phoenix

New Snow understood little of what was said, but sensed what was said was for her when Bloodspots gaze found her own. New Snow sighed through her nose, wondering if fighting the girl would earn her respect. New Snow looked for none, this only being about her own rights—and as she felt Bloodspot double down, New Snow brightened.

Something like pride in her gaze, too, shone. New Snow moved to defer—

But it was now daughter of Red Woman against daughter of Red Woman! 

Her heart ached. But she too could not move to intervene. New Snow thought she saw in Blood Star her mother, but also in Bloodspot. 

And then she looked toward her man. There was no room for them and theirs, here. She could not find it in herself to even seek to take another thing from the daughters of Red Woman, who had lost enough. 

New Snow drifted toward Blood Star, offering her a submissive look, too, as her gaze averted. Riley got a long, intrigued look that passed onto Bloodspot. 

But back to Blood Star did her golden gaze go, a long whine for the children of Red Woman to hopefully understand: unity! And then she saw the youngest, and she wagged her tail to him, too. 

But her season was coming, and quickly. Too quickly. New Snow flattened her lobes, that fire undimming—
          
Stressed, she began to pant. Her own place here was put into question by the new Wealda. And so New Snow passed a gentle look onto each of the faces before her. Perhaps she should intervene. Was it not she herself who had caused things to come to blows, even if unwittingly? 

It mattered not. In the wilds, this was how things were resolved. Bloodstar, she presumed, fought for herself, not her, in the challenge made. From this a Wealda would be revealed, 

and the rest of her future, too. New Snow moved to nuzzle against her mate, and then drifted to daughter to kiss at her ear. The tension was high, but New Snow would settle alongside the boy who might then be most conflicted. 

Her own season was forgotten, even if the feelings of it still stirred in her belly.

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