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He hadn't gone very far... well.. maybe he had...

Looking back over his shoulder, the dark unicorn noted with a suitable amount of weariness how far he had ambled. The faraway mountain peaks of the herd territory were just visible beyond the misty cloud cover, while the lower river country that the Elderwillow soquili called home wasn't immediately discernible from the rest of the green forest canopy.

Yep, he had gone pretty far this time around...

Heaving a sigh, Toujours lightly sniffed the surrounding air currents, grateful for the breeze, but in immediate need of a cool drink. Blessedly, he caught a whiff of spring water, likely one of the smaller ponds that dotted this region if he was any judge. Mumbling a gentle prayer of thanks to his personal Spiritual Benefactor, the unicorn stepped off the deer trail pushed his way through the underbrush, too thirsty to wonder why the forest denizens hadn't made a path to this water source already.

Pushing his way through the remaining underbrush, he found that the area was saturated with a most unpleasant smell... likely rotting flesh.

Nauseated, the dark unicorn looked around for the source, and found to his horror the carcass of a dead wolf laying half in and half out of a very small pool of water. No soquili were nearby, despite the slight scent on the wind that one was... and to his relief, he could also scent another body of fresh waternearby... hopefully uncontaminated.

He started to walk away, towards the other water source.. but something held him back, and he turned too look at the carcass again.

The beast was an old one.. and had likely been about to die when he found water. Flies were arriving in droves, along with other biting insects... they would reduce the body to nothing in a few days.. but... Closing his eyes briefly, TJ stepped back towards the body, and without a touch of his usual flippancy or pageantry, started digging. He couldn't leave things as they were, it just wasn't in his nature.