Marius clearly did not think this through.

He shook his head at the response, and then followed the other man's line of sight, and squinted as he spotted the... thing on the ground. He certainly hoped it was not a human corpse.

And when he glanced back at the man there was the slightest hint of guilt in his eyes now, as a result of feeling rather useless, aside from the part where he actually managed to kill the elk without blotching it. "Would you want me to fetch it?"