thinking of you

He didn't like what he saw above them, and turned towards Charon to peer beyond where they had came. It would have seemed to him that the easiest way to really go and get up higher was to backtrack a little, but he also couldn't have helped but be distracted by the expression that had come across Charon's features. That alone helped to navigate his gaze back across the expanse of charred land, and by then Mordecai had turned in a full circle.

"It doesn't seem as bad from up here," he commented then, offering his feelings. And really, for Mordecai that was true. It seemed less of a devastation to him from there, like it covered less ground than it really did. But in truth, it had burned a fair part of their territory in a short time. "To be honest with you, if it hadn't rained when it did, I think the fire would have taken us all before we could have gotten away. It moved fast." His tone lost the smoothness to it, replaced with an absent sort of sorrow and worry that came from his recall of the evening.

He shook his head and with it the memory was cast aside.