Ouroboros Spine but then along came this biter

if this is horrible i blame my non-existent attention span at the moment.

Her march into the water was slowed significantly where the muddy waters made seeing the path ahead impossible. The last thing she wanted to do was go and break an ankle in water that wasn't that deep, or trip and go falling face first into the water. Which admittedly, the latter would have probably worked to cool them all down, but they were hardly wolves that went lazing about in tepid waters.

She crossed the river, pausing briefly to shake her coat out where the waters had brushed against her. Deeper than she anticipated in places, but nothing that she hadn't crossed before. There she waited briefly for Iqniq to join her, and pressed ahead into the dense growth of the forestry on the other side. Her progress into the foliage did not go far, steps calculate and slow. She wanted to keep him close for untold purposes, though the revelation of her intent came as swiftly as she deigned their venture to have gone far enough.

Echelon turned on him, a particular glint to her cool gaze as she appraised him. She itched for something to pass the quietude and sprang forward to him brazenly — she wanted to spar with him again. But she would not repeat the folly of her previous tactics here, her feet stopping and turning her as she snapped at the air before them both. He'd pick up the message soon enough.