He was sure that was a donkey's head impaled on the end of a rifle. And he made the mistake of turning his head when he saw movement and witnessed a honey badger digging through the bowels of another man. He didn't want his mother—who he knew had killed in her past—to see this. At least Bridgette stayed buried. He heard her sobbing in the corner of his mind.
Bridgette wasn't weak by any means, but she tended to let her emotions control her from time to time. Not that his heart wasn't broken also, but his logical mind demanded that they seek freedom first, recompense after. He'd let them believe that Oberon could actually care about him and that it wasn't some spell from Gloria. Hadn't Mandy claimed that the spell didn't affect her because she already cared about their brother? But then again, Shlee was part of that spell also, and she'd turned down Eldon's marriage proposal.
