Redhawk Caldera Rebel riff.

Hopefully it wouldn’t take an entire year to learn everyone’s names, though with the turnover rates in this place, the membership might do a total churn by then. What a depressing thought. Towhee shoved it away, focusing on Hotah’s lips as he mentioned a wife and then brought up the elephant in the room.

You can work your way up in the ranks, she assured, and integrate yourself among the rest of the pack. As for a wife… Towhee made a show of looking ponderous. There’s Trailhawk and… no, wait, that’s it. Just Trailhawk. Unless you want to fight Cinar for Livi. That could be entertaining.

Should she explain why her own name wasn’t on the table? Maybe Hotah just assumed it was due to her age. Would she even be alive in a year? But that wasn’t it. Even with Rodyn, Towhee couldn’t really offer her heart, at least not in whole. More years had passed than they’d ever spent together, though her torch for Maxim would never go out.