Ouroboros Spine x-ing a paragrab

Can be a cameo.

The time he had spent upon the mountain had not been wholly useless. Beyond the trees and the twisting path of Avicus lurked the little mountain boy, seeking things he had seen in passing. Finding what the red-furred girl would have overlooked in her zeal.

She was fast and lithe, and would keep the white witch busy. As Karst krept along he grew bold; first one cache, then some measure away, another; the pilfered tusk not with him.

He ate some of what he found, dragged and desecrated the little stores of food and medicine, stealing through the dark and up the hillside to where the ulaqs were clustered.