Moonspear you remove withered flowers

There was a certain numbness to the achievement of finding Lazarus. To know he and Ame had not been able to rend him with their own teeth after all that he had destroyed was not a pleasing thought. But it was better than Goober, whom they'd never found a trace of again. It was something. Yet still he felt very little; maybe it needed to settle still.

He nosed her cheek briefly before joining her on the patrol. His face betrayed little happiness — nor lack thereof — but when he saw her look at him he forced a smile to his face. It was the end of a chapter, and soon, the start of a new one.