Blackfoot Forest the woods are lonely, dark, and deep

She had him there. He hadn't considered whether or not his own questions gave away what his status may or may not have been. But when that was put into the spotlight it became very clear, and came very sudden. A waning smile pressed into his features; minor admittence without saying that she had been right all along.

"I did once, but no more." He felt that sufficient enough to answer what she had previously asked. The Spine was behind him now, and the thoughts of settling elsewhere, however prominent or not they were, surfaced briefly. But Mordecai found he was not inclined to give up his freedoms for the self-imposed chains that leadership and claims were all about. At least, he wasn't inclined to do them in any traditional sense.

"What about you, is that glacier you spoke of yours?"