Redtail Rise entombed

Redd was not surprised to hear this, though disappointment silently filled her.  She regarded him silently for a moment, but could read little.

We lead.  We do not follow.  He was Berserker now, and his duty was here.  He no longer chased approval.  Yet she would not, and could not, prevent him.  What followed he would decide.

She had little else to say and no reassurances to give.  From the start she had known her own place; she could not follow without abandoning their home herself, something she would never allow to happen again.  If he too had nothing further, she would leave him to his thoughts.