Great Bear Wilderness Fading Echos

Anddd I've been awake the last twenty hours. Pretty sure I'm into my sixth second wind of the span. @______@

As the duo closed in, he picked up on the distinct scent of rather fresh rear end matter. It threw him for just a moment, at least until he pinpointed the source of the smell. Cara. Well, if that was how she intended to ambush them, then Mordecai couldn't really argue with it. It was either bad luck or genius, assuming that the elk wouldn't be thrown off by a smelly approach. The look on her face said it was the former and most importantly Mordecai made no verbal ruckus about it. There were worse things she could have stumbled into or through, no doubt half of those unpleasant items lingering in the tall weaves of grass around them.

As Kaname left to scout the group, he waited quietly before trailing after the dark-coated brute. It was only then that Mordecai realized the full size of the herd that they had come across, and it certainly wasn't that large the last time he had seen it. They had merged with another, doubling their size and letting their brood mingle. They must have joined together somewhere that they could have crossed the river; Mordecai felt a pressing need for them to lay their teeth into the elk before too long. He would not have been surprised if they had been driven together because of other hunters.

Spreading out at the command, he slunk low through the plain, his steps calculated and soft against the earth. Aside from sound and smell of the others, nothing else may have existed as he drew himself closer and closer to the idling beasts, studying them and trying to scent one that may not have been as well as the others. Where there was one sick ungulate, there were bound to be others, and perhaps in less favorable but not completely deteriorated condition. Up closer, the call of the bull elk was joined by another. Their cover of haze was a closing window.