Redtail Rise gopher guts

Oh. Did he miss them? If they were his family?

Somehow Ashlar thought the question would not be welcomed. So it died on his tongue, as many did when he spoke with the hunter. He could tell that little he said would be valued or needed and that feeling, though it made him smaller, also lent him quiet contemplation. He wondered what it might be like, to so dismiss things? Ashlar did not think he would like it. It seemed a lonely life.

With nothing else to say, he fell silent, always a step behind the larger man. Eventually they would reach Avicus and learn what the call had meant.

wrap this here? And maybe they can have another soon <3