Great Bear Wilderness at the edge of the future

Pfft, not that dusty. But I can fade since I know you're busy! I also hope your phone gets to working again because I miss talking to you! :C

Though he did not express it, he was thankful that Verrine did not pry into the nature of what was going on in the Spine. While he didn't mind giving direction to others, Mordecai had learned that he didn't like to involve others in his own problems. It was far easier to let go of things than to dwell on them, though some things were so fixed that dwelling on them was inevitably. Yet he had a firm grasp on keeping them shut away under lock and key. But Verrine's humor was infectious all the same, and he found himself smiling in spite of what he had informed his brother.

“You know, it could be also because we just keep going further and further north,” he rejoined at the end of his brother's commentary. It was one truth that Mordecai had not been able to deny since he had started heading further north. The summers were shorter, at least as far as they went in giving warmth. Winter too, was always longer. Harder and harsher, it was a mistress that he found was not tamed. Changing the topic that they were on, Mordecai enjoyed the conversation that he found in his younger brother. When the time came that they found they needed to return to their respective homes, he found himself wishing that they could have been more like children again, not so bound to responsibility.