Redtail Rise serenade

The call of a ghost made his fur stand on end.

Her shockwave rippled throughout the Rise. Their reality shifted as they knew it. 

He ran to see her.

The youth was blindsided and in disbelief. With joy and relief came the sting of pain; there was a thorn of resentment still lodged in his heart. His mother’s disappearance had been world shattering.

I mourned you. I moved on without you.

Yet her place had always stayed open. And nobody but her could fill it.

A profound, overwhelming feeling of love squandered all.

Mother. One and only.

He stood and stared at her, slack-jawed and tepid.