Heron Lake Plateau Oh the Weather Outside is Frightful

Owen was totally giving him a headache.  Quixote was telling him the truth in the most clear way he could possibly do and somehow Owen was finding the most illogical spin to put on it.  How did he even do that?  He was pretty sure that he hadn't been dropped on his head or anything, so what crossed so many wires inside the kid's skull? 

It's not an issue -- the lake is there, so they'll come back.  No birds isn't the end of the world.  It just means we hunt other things until they do.  Not a big deal.  C'mon, Owen, don't pick everything apart...  Small things can build tunnels in it like they do in the earth.  Same theory, really.  I saw a fox do a faceplant right into the snow, ended up catching a vole or something -- then the trick is seeing if you can scare the fox into dropping the vole before it runs away. -- Rabbits will come up to the surface to travel, though, so not as weird with them.

Look, look.  See how fast the snow is gathering?  You can still see the ground and we've been walking for how long?  It's not that fast.  It takes a long time for it to get really deep.  You'll end up walking on top of it a lot of the time -- it's like if you kick a bunch of dirt into a pile, sink a little, but you can still walk fine. Kind of.  Seriously, why did he have to explain all this?  Next thing, Owen would be screeching about how suddenly they would be buried under sand dunes or something.

They were almost to the thicket by now and maybe if they had their ears attached, the other kids or @Raven (o hai, u want cameo?? >P ) might hear the hubbub the boy was causing.  All this fuss over a bit of snow!  He sure as hell hoped maybe Raven had something up her sleeve that could fix this apparent disaster he'd somehow caused without deceiving the kid in any way.  Who knew the truth and natural cycles would be so heinously complicated...