Ouroboros Spine but then along came this biter

As she spotted him, he spotted her. Not too far at all away it would have seemed. Far enough to give their issumatar the space she desired to rest, but never too far that they would be out of earshot to her call. She smiled paper thin at him for a moment, picking up her pace to join him at the narrow stream where he drank. She knew this patch of ground well, having loitered in its presence for a time or two. But she did not pause to drink, instead pushing her way into the running water where it was swallow with a tense wave of her tail.

"Come," she said simply. As it was though she had something to show him, but it was far from it. She desired a different playground for what came to mind now that she had found him.