Redtail Rise sanguine

if we get to a point where ranks matter we can pause and see how the other thread shakes out <3

He simply watched in silence.  Redd knew what it was she wanted.  She also knew it was not what she could have.  She did not want to fight him.  She did not want to lie, to posture, to make a show of violence that she did not intend to follow through on.  I was Wealda before.  It should have been enough.  Yet it was not.

Again she stood in the place her sister had stood before her.  Masquerade’s words made more sense to her now and she saw, in her sister’s departure, the thing she had known she could not build here.  Respect without violence.  Redd did not fear violence in protecting their claim, but engaging in it now was meaningless.  She did not want to force them to submit to her.  She wanted them to choose it.

She could not find words and, even if she had, Redd did not know if they would be understood.  Frustration filled her and lifted the fur along her shoulders in a ridge.  They had chosen; she would not force compliance.  With a lash of her tail she turned and stalked away, her fur and teeth still set on edge.  She would hunt.  Until things were clearer she could at least provide.