Noctisardor Bypass Why does he look like his head is only there to keep the top of his neck warm?

Arbiter went to the borders.  After the report of some fool in Maplewood, she put more of her attention on that side.  Hopefully whoever it was would be gone soon enough.  Tomorrow she'd go investigate it herself -- if she found them there, it seemed likely they weren't going to be ready for a round two with someone who hadn't been in the first fight.

Right now, it all looked clear -- well, clear for everything except snow, which seemed to be permanently falling from the sky at this time of year.  More prey had returned, and all things considered, she was fairly sure that in another month or so perhaps it would be hard to tell anything that happened.  Regardless of what happened then, she still needed to do her duties, and after a bit of staring off into the horizon in search of distant movement, she looked away and back to the tree that was next on her list to mark.