Hushed casket - - open

A dark blot on the pristine skin of the snow was quite conspicuous - more so when it started moving - the trail cut behind it indicated the creature had wandered off territory at some point earlier, inevitably there would be questions.

Of course they wouldn't say a the real answer.

But suffice to say there was more distortion in the hidden patches of marred and twisted skin under the plating - extra tendrils perhaps, a few newly fused bones slowly destructor did and subserved into biomass but nothing anyone would spit out of the ordinary for him.

They could barely stand to look at them anyway - and the mass of twisted shambling the creature was made it near impossible to divulge new details unless they chose to grow new obvious mutations, which they had not.

No need to startle them with their abilities after all, they'd already put in enough of an impression.

The strange multi-time and dual mouthed nature of the hideous horror made the slight hum they emitted as they shambled along into a much more disturbing sound,

But they were satiated, one less nuisance for where they rested their head, one less hunter looking to prey upon where he dwelt - and a meal for the gnawing hunger, a new mass of knowledge and biomass served to them on a silver platter.

The snowbound ear wouldn't understand - but they had no need to.

There was no blood, no body to clean away - no evidence that required explanation - a simple explanation of a longer patrol circuit that went outside the borders because he'd spotted something but it had been a false lead, I'm very sorry for leaving the safety of the assigned territory but I thought it worth investigating

Strings of flesh at his gums shuddered. The outer mouth - barely hanging on and almost always gaping open - shuddered into a parody of a smile while that haunting hum continued with their trek back into the territory.

/Tl:dr silent wandered out of territory to satiate his hunger and now he's back in the territory, as normal as he always looks, as normal for him anyway.

code by spacexual