Redtail Rise stoneward

ancelin swung his head toward liliia in attentiveness, but they were interrupted by masque.
ancelin felt like he hardly knew his cousin. he forced something like warmth into his eyes as the other hunter came closer, and heard in her question a request for invitation.
it was tempting to keep his solace with lilia. but it was also a moment to ingratiate himself with the cousins who had become strangers in his absence.
"lilia was just about to tell me what she wanted to hunt," he finally said. had masque been spying? did he care? ancelin decided he did not, despite his companion's obvious mis-ease with the situation.