Redtail Rise fulvous

Fading here, thank you so much for the great thread!

They sunned themselves until the shade cast by the Rise inched over their bodies. He felt his heartbeat slow, the residuals of his hammering pulse thrumming thickly in his paws.

Then he leapt to his feet, intent on exploring what had drawn him to this land in the first place: the imposing incline of the Rise, its surface rugged and weathered, not particularly conducive to an easy climb. But he knew how to scale slopes with no obvious footholds, had grown up alongside trails just like these.

He flicked his tail in vague invitation, but he would proceed with or without her. Surely, she herself had scaled the Rise countless times over during her tenure as Wealda -- it was possible that her own paws had created some of the paths that wound toward the corrugated apex.