Redtail Rise while the future is fast coming for you, it always flinches first

shot down. aventus' explanation was well and good enough, but ancelin couldn't help but feel a little rebuffed. still he swallowed this down and pumped his head in jerky nods.
"all right, dad." what point was there in arguing. "i'll keep an eye out here."
ancelin mustered an encouraging smile for his dad. "i know you'll find him. or we will." he didn't want to be left behind, but the idea of leaving the rise on such a specific hunt made him hum with anticipation.
he wondered what his dad meant about being a good leader. did he mean avicus wasn't? the boy would puzzle over that for a while. but for now he only crept closer to his dad, settling at the dark shoulder thinned by travel and hunger.