Blacktail Deer Plateau i need you in the here and now

nooo flattery nooo, my writing pales in comparison. :C

Fast moving feet approaching him gave him just enough of a warning that he was about to be joined. Who did join him was not the scampering little Eilidh, but what he surmised as to be a sibling of hers quickly. This interruption forced him to stop what he was doing and back off just a step from it, if only so the younger wolf could investigate it himself. His little question hung in the air soon and Mordecai was amiss as to what to say it was.

Instead he brought his own muzzle back down for a swift investigation, perhaps even going as far as to nudge the youngster playfully clear of the object. Mordecai considered that it was the remnant scrap of a rabbit long gone, but instead thought of Osprey's story of the trolls and went with that instead. "It's a piece of a troll," he told the pup. "Looks like someone got a piece of him while he was out wandering. Was it you?" Because yeah, asking the kid who just asked what it was if he did it was totally the thing to do. Still, he hoped to entice the youngster all the same, much as he done his sister. And if anything, he also hoped this time his experience went over better than how it had with Charon.

Then again, Charon was also hardly a young boy exploring the world for the first time.