Redtail Rise Deadlatch

A predictable counterattack, yes, but what fun was it to brutalize your sibling? 

Actually, that was a lie—that would probably be much more fun.

But the future Bjern needed to hone in his defensive fighting moves too. 

His defiant growl is deadened as Masque intercepts him, seizing his neck. Instead of pulling away, he does the opposite. The boy pushes into their grasp and rolls into them, hoping to bowl the both of them over and cause them to release him in the mess of it.