Redtail Rise sanguine

making this private so it can wait until after things resolve, but I can also always make it read only if need be! Just had inspiration and knew they’d need a thread eventually! ;v;

In the days that followed her return, and after time spent hunting in the bordering lands, Redd avoided @Mountain Boulder. She waited for her shame to fade into acceptance but instead it remained, heightened by the very fact that it prevented her from facing him.

She could not know that they had done it for her sake. She only saw their reluctance in greeting her. And she only saw, in her moment of reclamation, Ulfhedinn’s immediate rebuff. She could not have fought him. Even knowing this, Redd regretted. She had not known then how this rejection would feel. It was sharper, and cut far deeper, than any teeth she might have faced.

She did not know if she could submit to him again. To him or to Mulherin, both settled above her. She had not realized what Wealda was to her until it was gone.

Night had fallen and she hunted. She had no peace of mind for rest.