Redtail Rise are we living a life that is worth the harm

a flash of fire ahead, a plume of smoke before it.

Avicus walks toward her brother, the weight of the world in her stomach.

he's back from looking for his son. and nothing she can say could counter whatever he's feeling.

he'hh gone? she asks, though it's not really a question. she'd known from the moment he'd left her that Atreus was forging his own path.

she just wasn't sure if Aventus could accept it.

but her eyes are soft, anyway, and fixed upon her littermate's dark face.