Ouroboros Spine x-ing a paragrab

Finally he has found what he was after — not within the witch's ulaq but further up the hillside. As Nuak comes barrelling back down the way he has come, there comes the snarling sounds of entanglement and a sharp, nervous pinch to his chest.

The boy gallops along with a length of fox fur clutched between his teeth; the same which had been gifted to him for sleeping. He has destroyed numerous caches along the way, and now looks upon the scattered success of his efforts as he bolts towards the noise.

It would be better to keep going — to leave behind Avicus to the moon witch's followers — but as he crests a bluff, he sees her. Them. Bodies chasing and teeth gnashing, Avicus at the helm of the horde as she struggles - and there, Kukutux.

Nuak charges. The fur slows him down until he drops it in the grass. His fur is serrated all over, his tail is high and proud; a show to redirect their ire, barkings and snapping to draw Kukutux' attention enough so that Avicus can escape.