Ankyra Sound you gotta be your own 3am

saltwinter. blixen is not a historian, but there was definitely no saltwinter when she was a child. when drageda relocated from sleeping dragon, then, she thinks, and isn't sure what to do with that knowledge. caiaphas names herself -- it does not set off recognition in her the way she thought it might; her experiences with the pack in the sound had largely revolved around ingram and arrille, the rest of minimal importance. 

still, she's not eager to hand off mallaidh's name, some instinctively protective urge sending warning bells up to her. unfortunately, 'quick on her feet' or 'good at subterfuge' are not qualities she possesses, and the first name that springs to mind (given where she is) 

"it's ingram," 

which could not be a more obvious lie, assuming she's right in her guess that caiaphas was in the sound last time it was settled, and given that she's already gendered her missing friend as female. of course she can't go back on it now, so she straightens up slightly, committing, as it were, to the bit.