Ouroboros Spine all dolled up in gabardine

MONTHS LATER... sure, that sounds good to me! I'll fade out here, lol. Sorry for abruptly dropping out while we were threading. :X

He wasn't sure how he felt about the incoming cold. With nothing to gauge it against, Mordecai wasn't sure if the Wilds would be prone to a bitter, hateful winter or something more mild. Something tolerable, he added mentally. Time would ultimately tell, this he knew, but he didn't want to be caught off guard by it. Time also had its way of getting away when it wanted to, as hours and days had often slid past him like grains of sand.

"Well, I should be on my way," he opted to say as their conversation lapsed. "Guess I'll be seeing you around?" His query was rhetorical, but cheeky all the same. He expected to see her around, as she didn't strike him as too bad. Perhaps she had a lot to learn from a first glance, but that didn't mean much of anything. They all had to start somewhere, and little did either of them know where the road ahead would take them. Offering her a friendly nudge as he moved on, Mordecai set off for the next thing on his list, whatever it may have been.