Redtail Rise morendo

it took a moment for the words to sink in. she listened, and parsed them all, and it was a heartbeat before her neutral (albeit somewhat worried) gaze begins to burn.

of course he'd stay loyal to the pack. that isn't her concern.

there's nothing rational about her anger—except maybe there is, because he'd come here, groveling with tail between his legs. 

he had turned her down in the midst of her heat, and had gotten another with child.

children that would belong to a different pack! when the Rise needed bodies!

how dare he turn HER down?!

who? Avicus manages to spit through teeth tightly clenched. when? her tail lashes behind her; had it weighed as much as her rage, she might have created with it storms to ravage the plains.