Redtail Rise power of the saber blade

She refuted him. Cambria looked into her face for a long moment, wondering what “everything” was to her. Perhaps she meant Ruckus or maybe the land itself. Maybe she even referred to the wolves who peopled the rise, even though it was clear to him that they didn’t return that dedication.

I think I might’ve been talking to myself, he nearly confessed, though he pressed his lips together before the words slipped free. Perhaps now was not the time to add his own cryptic comments to the situation. Redd had enough on her plate without adding Cambria’s shaky feelings to it.

What is everything, he decided to go ahead and ask instead, to you?

There was the legacy too, he supposed. Maybe no matter how futile it was trying to step into the former Wealda’s shoes, it was equally impossible not to try. Perhaps Redd might even choose death over leaving Redtail Rise, which was a sobering thought that put the stitch right back in the Dragonling’s chest.