Elko dies :(

The boys witness death by seeing their horse die. My first thought was that someone poisoned Elko or fed him razorblades. I'm relieved to know that it was only a twisted gut. The scene of the autopsy is very long and graphic, and the fact that the boys don't cry says something about their transition of emotional states from that of children to men. They are hardening and becoming like the McPheron brothers, which I am neither deeming good nor bad.