Redtail Rise stoneward

new kids reminded ancelin he was alone. 
what if his father had found his mother and even now were restarting a future without the failure of their first children? ancelin couldn't even tell where the thought had come from, only that he felt sharply gut-punched and so overlooked most of lilia's reaction to their unseen watcher.
his face closed.
"they'll have a lot of teachers," he grunted, taciturn and brickwalled. his eyes scanned the landscape in front of them, and at last he paused to examine a stale rabbit track.