Redtail Rise merlot

any are welcome but this can also be read only, or single response, if necessary!

Once decided it could not be dispelled.  When Redd arrived on the borders after her separation from the hunt lead, she sent up a call for @Ruckus.

We will depart.

Her heart felt like lead in her chest.  Her spirit had been left in the woods to run with her family.  Yet her mind was still and calm, finally decided on the outcome that she’d once thought never possible.  She resented that she’d tasted leadership.  She resented that she could not go back.

Not Wealda.  She would become something else.

She ached from a day of traveling game trails and sat as she waited, but the tension she felt would not leave.  It was as if something within her wound tight in anticipation, ready to snap loose and propel her into an unknown future.  She would be alone.  This, more than the rest, frightened her.

She would try to make them proud.  But the Rise would need to look to their own, and Redd would no longer be one of them.  She would not return.