Redtail Rise israfel

on the eastern border, where the river tumbles over the cliffs. set directly after this thread

@Masquerade and @Redd will come—that much she is sure.

@Mulherin, by virtue of his connection to the former Caru, perhaps. @Redsky and @Wanderer, perhaps. @Carrion? she doesn't hold out any particular hope.

and with a wistful thought toward @Relic—wherever he may be, alive or dead—she tips her muzzle to the sky and summons her children. 

let Lilia hear the cry ring out. damn this interloper.

you should have killed her when you had the chance

the red woman paces atop the cliffs, gaze darting back and forth from the horizon to the flocks of crows that linger, feasting on carrion and harassing the red-tailed hawks that give this place its name—

her name!

angry tears in eyes and hot bile in throat rise up in tandem, threatening to blind her, choke her. 

she is cursed. cursed by the bear—it must be so.

for it is the bear who had dragged her away from this place, dragged her into the spirit-realm, and all the while, her kingdom overtaken by that

bitch

not of her blood,

wed to Ancelin, son of Aventus

and she must be cursed. Avicus stops, lashing her tail. she must be cursed, she concludes, as she waits for her children to arrive.

however many will heed the summons to begin with.