Ouroboros Spine under divine law of the opus magnum

No problem! I figured since you started our last one-on-one, I could do this one! <3

There was always plenty to be done in the Spine, a fact that he was becoming acutely aware of. Leadership did not come easy to the tawny Ostrega, but he had come from decent lineage. Only Mordecai had chosen to excel in other areas, leaving him now to only wish he had paid more attention to the way his father and mother had handled things. He wondered if they had ever had to deal with a cooperation that did not want to exist. He was certain that they had, given any stories he could have recalled in his youth of their ventures.

However, those thoughts were laid quickly to rest when he spied Cara mingling in with the thick forests that lined their broad border. If not for his conscious decision to not avoid her, he would have turned to draw himself further away from her. Mordecai had not hid that he wanted little to do with her now, as went the theme that he had played for the many weeks since her rise to power. His pace slowed as he bristled uncomfortably, steeling himself for what he anticipated to be a barrage of dominance and insults. A lesser creature would have found humor in the display from the yearling, but time had honed him to think differently than that. He had not found humor in her actions but once, and that had been in the beginning.

Gold eyes regarded her firmly, though not as an equal.