Noctisardor Bypass noseim

He was like a stone when she touched him; before he might have been comparable to a gargoyle, or some homunculus, and when he wasn't in motion he was like a mountain, and so when she touched him he gave no indication if he was bothered or delighted, because he did not know. It did not matter. She had done it by mistake as she'd moved to gather herself.

She did not need anything except the message conveyed, and Glaukos would do as he was asked. Then when he moved he became this mechanical thing, moving to the dead beaver to gather it and in his silent, brooding way he would begin to work of dragging it again across the territory to where Druid waited - or a cache, or whichever came first.