Death attracted predators, those that could taste it in the air as it hung and was carried great distances by a breeze. Anthemtalon had a knack for finding corpses, although he definitely preferred ones that had been forgotten and left to rot away in the far edges of the territory. Rancid food, things that nobody else would eat, bones; all were fair game for the komodo monitor. He ate and slept, that was all there was to the lizard's life and all there likely would ever be. Hopes for the lizard's growth as a person easily could be dashed when he time and time again brought rotten food to his peers as gifts.

Regardless, the smell of flesh in the air attracted the carnivorous lizard. Talons scrape as the long and heavy body is heaved along, carrying Anthemtalon in the direction of the smell. The snow could hide entrails from some, but not from the absolute scavenger that he was. Freshly turned snow was again churned, not a glance given towards the actual carcass within the pit. Instead, the lizard decided to try hauling away the previously buried cervine's internals, to a more sunny spot to snack on them.

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Maude disappearing so soon after attacking Sojourn was concerning, to say the least, and Aphra was beginning to wonder if the goddess was hiding from her clanmates because of it. It was probably something Maude had to deal with, with clanmates possibly thinking her as traitorous or deserving of some sort of punishment for murdering the former Kingpin. But Aphra couldn't find fault in Maude's move - it saved potentially a lot more people from dying, if Sojourn hadn't tried to do worse things to herself.

Anthemtalon's shuffling around made Aphra peer down into one of Maude's fighting pits, before she hopped down into it herself. Shit! Aphra grit her teeth as a sharp pain went through her legs, though fortunately nothing was broken. It just hurt a lot, from landing like that. The guts and gore wasn't something that bothered Aphra but she was glad at least someone was eating it and it wasn't just going to waste under the snow, but what about the giant carcass laying not far from either of them..?

Aphra got closer to the carcass, discovering how it had been cut and lowered herself to peer into the opening. There, she could see reddish-colored fur hiding within the body. "Maude?" She called out gently to the war goddess. "What are you doing?" Wearing fur pelts was something normal and expected here in the Coalition, but huddling in a corpse? That was new.[glow=COLOR,1,400] ━ ✧*:･ﾟ[/glow]