Ouroboros Spine Oh, in time you'll see

I used to slide down the hills during the flood season here and anger my folks lmao. I'd be all "K I GO PLAY" as a little kid and come back an hour later with mud from head to toe. One day I managed to do this when my mother was trying to leave for work and take me to my grandmother's too. In our yard. She was not pleased. I had fun though, haha!

Sialuk's figure emerged from the murky depths like an explosion of brightness. At first, being so caught up in freeing himself, Mordecai did not immediately realize what it was that he saw in his peripheral. It was only when he paused at her coming near in her own fashion that he realized who it was, and more importantly, what it was. Not an apparition from the gloom, not in the slightest. She was muddied, but not quite to the fashion that he was. Mordecai was far less dainty and careful in his steps, which was fair to say was the reason he found himself in the current mess.

She drew near as he continued to work at freeing a leg, finding a patch of ground less severe to traverse. Curiously, he grew his gaze around to her as she closed that distance, discovering that he tensed at her proximity to him. But it was fleeting, as he soon understood what it was that she intended to do. Thinking that perhaps the leverage would help, he turned himself slightly, adjusting his own center of weight in a way that she would be able to grasp his scruff. He did not fear her gripping him tightly, or consider that she could have easily pushed him down further into the muck. In a way, he hoped his extension of trust towards her would prompt her to make the right decisions herself.