Bitterroot Valley blood ties

in the tundra, a dark speck sits in the pure white snow. serpent eyes watch the familiar figures of her kin approach. the crow that followed them swept over her shoulders. as its reward, a rabbit lay by her side. her familiar croaked as it hopped into the snow, and pecked at the matted fur of the rabbit.

kaedra let the boys close the distance, sat firm and upright like the black queen she was supposed to be.