Lost Creek Hollow blackbird song is over now

Where he thought their conversation was coming to an end, he instead got to feel the sucker punch experience again of how Shikoba had come to gain her injures. He only had the bits and pieces to it, no doubt passed to him by his mate. But the fact that it had taken one of their own, perhaps even multiple for all he knew as their numbers thinned, only served to rub salt in their wounds. He tensed for a moment, mouth open as though his intent to reply was coming and yet nothing came. If that particular little ball of fluff was with the cat, Mordecai did not think his odds were good.

His head bowed for a moment, before a noisy exhale pushed him into relaxing.

"We'll find him, soon," he said. "But you need your strength, first. You need to rest," and those words he doubted would placate her. For Ayishik's sake, he could only hope that if he was still alive that he would be smart enough to stay that way. The cougar's presence was never something that Mordecai had taken lightly; the gravity of the situation was not lost on him, even if he was amiss as to what more they could do.