Ouroboros Spine [Moose Herding Quest?]

4 -- I've been interrupted no less than six times writing this, so if Mordecai's action towards Ptarmigan isn't clear, he's trying to pin her down basically. I CHANNELS MY RAGE AT BEING LAID OFF RIGHT NOW

Somewhere in the fray, he felt the splattered of warm blood at either side. The owners of said blood, he couldn't have said, but scarcely thought that any of it was his own. He broke away from them as they snapped but turned, jaws reaching back out to snap back at non-verbal retort of his own. But this time, Mordecai stayed out of the fray. Both of them were bleeding profusely on their own and he realized, perhaps with some final futility, that he alone could not separate them from doling out justice.

Though he wanted to turn tail from their fight, he also felt he couldn't. Which left options that Mordecai didn't want to have anything to deal with. The fight in front of him forced his hand though and consequences be damned, he absently felt himself heading back into the fray. Only this time he went for Ptarmigan, hoping to take her down and give Sitri the opportunity to flee once more, if he had the sense. Her lower frame caused him to sink towards the terrain in a fleeting attempt to bowl her over and keep her there, a dangerous display of dominance that would turn against him in time.