Introducing Redwood, he is the character that Alder and Jack run into while Alder is on his traditional rite of passage hunt. If you What to find out what happens, read The Hope Lands Ch 4 and soon Ch 5, This is Redwood with his ceremonial mating markings, applied when he and Alder become mates.

Backstory
“I do not have a name, my parents did not want a name for me because of some argument that they had because, apparently I was not supposed to be born. As my father put it I am a mistake.” Jack “ That is awful why did your parents think you were a mistake?” Unnamed Lion “ Well apparently my father was out in the forest of my home lands and, he met a lioness, one thing lead to another and, she told him a few weeks later that she was pregnant with a cub. He freaked out and basically did not talk to her until he herd word of my birth, and when he came to see me after I was born he took one look at me and saw the blood shot left eye and basically disowned me, because of a curse. I lived with my mother and we were happy but when the rains started there was a mud slide and I was trapped in it and it just kept flowing and emptied into the river. That is one of the last things I remember.”

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