Redtail Rise Obey your master

Last post for me!

As am I, he said lowly, getting up from where he had pressed his son to the ground. Aventus loomed nearby until Avicus and Masquerade were well out of sight. Atreus' coughs elicited little more than a twitch of the father's ear now. Before, he would have attended his son swiftly.

Now? Now he saw that Atreus was going to be a problem, and his sympathy had run dry. Ancelin was lumped in by proxy; the boy had done nothing wrong, but Aventus had no patience in him now. He turned steely eyes upon his sons, then left them there to think about this whole exchange (or stew, as seemed more likely), retreating back to his perch above the den where he spent much of his time keeping lookout.