Redtail Rise landor's cottage

it's only the woman. she should have expected as much.

how are 'hhey? she asks, nodding toward the den. perhaps they'd come out to play, to see what the noise was. for now, she's patient.

and once she's asked that—knowing the woman is wordless—Avicus returns to her main thought. you are hunh'er. and have hunh'edh here. 

she gives the mother a deep, respectful nod. 'Hhclawan, the Wealda names her. hunter. she's proven herself worthy. hunh'er.