Redtail Rise You're gonna kick off before you even get halfway through

ancelin wove his voice in and out of her own, supporting each note with featherlight affection.
but their song did not bring a redtail, and his ears thrust forward as the song-echoes dissolved into the pluming of their hot breath.
he growled himself and slipped into a trot that became a run, carrying him headlong on a familiar charge into the heart of rise territory.
abandoned, returned to itself as if no one had lived here. 
he did not understand why his heart ached.