Redtail Rise rise,

The woman was preoccupied until his call, and then stood and looked, and Tulimaq saw this as a good sign for himself. He drifted closer and then stood above a snowbank, watching. The Boulder approached him first, but it was not his attention that mattered; this was not a choice of men but of the woman, and perhaps she would like a change.

The man postured and demanded Tulimaq back down, and the elder was not the kind of creature to cede ground so easily. He bristled and flashed his teeth in a small show of refusal, standing tall. His eye drifted from the man to the woman pointedly, and he chuffed to her as if saying, you choose. Or did she expect the man to make all decisions for her?