Redtail Rise onyx

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well-matched, the burn in mountain boulder's legs, the ache in his spine; these things proclaimed the ardent strength of his younger opponent.

white teeth flashed. night eye caught the huntlead along his cheekbone and laid it open. a weltering of blood sheeted from the slit flesh. its sting should have rejuvenated mountain boulder; he should have shoved the warlord to the ground then, hard, harshly.

but where wolven proclamation should stand in his heart was only emptiness as splayed ear recognized that blood star and the pup were no longer in reach of his senses.

had she not stayed to see the outcome?

he shoved away from night eye; throat afire, a huff scorched through it all the same, a rumble. a wave of his tail.

mountain boulder recognized the might of night eye. they had been well-met. his strength for now was greater, but many years separated he and night eye. 

two sisters had turned from this place. to cast the boy down might assure the same. mountain boulder did not doubt loyalty; he saw only again and again the effects of defeat.

his nostrils flared. the blood had begun to dry. his plume slowly drooped.

wisdom spoke. ambition no longer played in mountain boulder. night eye had drawn blood, and it was to this legacy of red woman that mountain boulder conceded, a savagery that even he did not have.