Redsand Canyon start to finish

From one end of a steep hill to the other was a span of bright red blood. There were prints in some spots of it, and further along as the blood tapered thin, the steps continued. The stripe transitioning to messy stains that trailed after Glaukos.

In his teeth hung a fat goose. It was white, or should've been while alive, and its neck was so long that he had to grip the thing from its back, between the wings. He tossed the thing down as he came to a plateau, square in the middle of it.

Licking his lips after, Glaukos looked from the vantage point he had discovered and out, at the surroundings of Mereo.

Some ways off he could see one of the other guardians doing a patrol. Down among the rocks was Tamar, tinkering at whatever job she'd found for herself.

He didn't call out to anyone, and turned back to his kill to begin plucking feathers.