author is deep down on some crazy shit with this one, and i’m a sucker for the whole ‘offering to the mountain god’ kinda story but i can’t with this one...
He really has been raising them for most of their lives, and they found red later because he got lost in the way, lmao.
Black is a saint and i hope they all have happy endings. I'm guessing he was the youngest ranger of his generation and the rest sacrificed to save him in some major conflict...