Ouroboros Spine [Moose Herding Quest?]

Mordecai momentarily stepped back, leaving Ptarmigan to turn back and finish the job. Sitri's dath came at his own beckoning, and though it would be swift, it was only out of necessity. To see him suffer would have eased all her rage.

But before she could take two steps, the Ostrega had bowled her over. She yelped and snapped at his face, writhing madly beneath him and hissing in her rage. “Get off me, you idiot,” she screeched at him, and if he listened closely, he might detect a trill of panic in her voice, for she had seen the glint in Sitri's eye, and she knew one of them would not survive this.

Mordecai, whatever his intentions might have been, was assuring that that someone would be her. She bucked wildly beneath his weight, frantically trying to free herself, but he was much too heavy.