Redtail Rise obbligato

Avicus nods. go, she says simply, acquiescing. whatever got this quandary over with sooner, the better. and she would not deny Ashlar his children.

nor a mother her offspring.

go now, she adds. her indigo gaze meets his pale yellow, a beacon of begrudging acceptance. it had to be settled one way or the other. Ashlar is probably the best representative in this case.

and yet he doesn't want to. . .

she shakes her head, involuntarily, and moves past him, heading toward where Relic had disappeared.