Redtail Rise cinereous

Ever since the Caru had shared her desire for children, Redd had assumed that this would be the outcome.  The two were often together and he was defensive of her.  It was a suited match, and her own feelings mattered little in that.  Masquerade was the flip side of an identical coin to New Snow; they were too valuable to be lost.  The rise would support their children or it would fall.

Her future was less certain, but that was not Masquerade’s problem to sort out.  Redd would need to make her own path forward.

Her tail waved happily with the news, though more with the glad way that Masque shared it.  Good.  She said, smiling congratulations.  

It was strange, to feel both that she could not step down and also that she was entirely unnecessary.  She would sort these feelings later.