Redtail Rise power of the saber blade

His presence and warmth were welcome.  She leaned into it companionably, but didn’t immediately answer.  This seemed to be fine as he worked through a number of statements in succession.

What did she need?

Redd automatically looked at Ruckus.  If it were not for them she might have resigned herself.  She did not know if the Rise would help her.  She had isolated herself before they’d gotten the chance, sensing danger to them in her condition, and now was perhaps no longer one of them.  She had no claim to their loyalty.  But because Ruckus needed her she could not simply perish here alone.

Food.  she answered finally, quietly.  For them, first. She had no claim from him either.  Cambria was not her mate, nor had she found herself wanting another since Gavrel.  He seemed interested in the pup’s well being, though, and this reassured her to some extent.  If something happened to her then, at least here, Ruckus would not starve.  She had known she was right to return.