Redtail Rise rockfall

staying vague but have had this kicking around! <3

ancelin had @Lilia. and yet seeing relic so close to her at that test had affected his deepset sense of abandonment. and so he had been scarce, hunting, endlessly hunting; he kept close to the rise but made himself widely unavailable.
and he did not talk to his mother.
but today he came to find lilia. the day was long and hot, and carried in the distance the threat of thunderstorms. beneath one such ripple of thunder ancelin discovered her strong frame and the stunning color of her eyes, and almost quailed.
"i'm going on a long hunt," the boy told her in a voice beginning to shift into the true deepness of masculinity. his indigo eyes were conflicted. 
he'd lost. he'd won. he had a home. he had her. and nothing, nothing settled ancelin. satisfied him; only the success of violence would do that.
he did not falter. "i'll be back for you." yes, possessiveness. yes. territoriality. yes, banked down, the ember of fear that he would be correct to leave, that she would replace him as soon as he had gone.
a test, administered by a proctor who had no idea he was in charge.