Ouroboros Spine [Moose Herding Quest?]

Scribbling in a narrative fade out to this with permission. :)

Kaname's words punctuated the beat of silence that fell between them, leaving Mordecai to eye him with contempt of his own. Hearing Meldresi's name tossed around again brought a troublesome note forward, but he supposed he could have hardly blamed her for getting out. Mordecai offered him no parting words, but then again, Cara would offered him none either. She had taken off after Kaname, something he didn't even realize until he saw her silvery and cream form bounding into the cover of foliage behind Kaname's dark body.

Huffing to himself, Mordecai chose to go the opposite way. But he found himself stopped then, as his eyes roamed over the body of Ptarmigan. That was enough to suck some of the anger out of him, however feebly it seemed. It was then and there that he made the decision not to entirely go away from all of them, but rather attend to the dead that had been left behind. Mordecai went through the tedious task of moving her body to somewhere else likely to be disrupted, and buried her. He used nothing to mark where she was interred, if only because he knew that it would be torn apart anyway. He figured any attempt of making a shallow grave would have been disrupted, but perhaps not.

And by the time he had finished, relevations had come to him, and night had fallen across the Spine.