Fishblight Mire Reptile

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the boy dragged himself from ursus and into the tumbling lands beyond. he longed for — he did not know, and trudged until a a fetid scent filled his nostrils. merrick, the vulture; merrick, the carrionbird; he followed the freek of it until he came to a mire. 
bloated with mud and the thawed carcasses of fleshy things that had died beneath the ice, the swamp was a long swathe of tangled trees and rotted dark places that reminded merrick of ripped holes in yielding skin, muscle sliding back to reveal a bloodied knob of shattered bone.
his eye blinked, pulling at the healing edges of the wounds fetched by the raven. his single cyclops orb, encircled by fresh toothmarks that finally tore and began to ooze again.
merrick sucked in his breath, turning the glut of his stinging eye toward the lop-eared figure coursing slowly through the muck like a furred crocodile. "you insane or something?" the boy called conversationally, padding along the bank with a curiosity sparkling through him.