King Elk Forest From the Ashes

Venere, bold and unafraid, was the first to leave the den. She squirmed happily at the sight of her mother, but then she saw the stranger, and she backed up a pace, hackles raising and her teeth showing in a small snarl. "'Daar!" she wailed for her brother, Vidaar. What would he think of this new man? And what even was he? Venere stared openly at him, and she looked to her mother, a question in her gaze. Who was he, and why was he here?