Blacktail Deer Plateau At least for a week

He'd returned and done what came naturally - he had challenged for a higher place among the pack, one befitting the son of Rosalyn, and he had lost in both cases. That weight filled him with an unbridled frustration. It would have been fine if he was still his old self, this child who only wanted his mother, but he had outgrown that version within Tortuga. Now, knowing there were people out there he could not defeat with a little bit of posturing, made Reyes quite unruly. He was pacing among the trees when he heard his sister call out, and had half a mind to continue wallowing. 

Are you here?! She called a second time - and this urged him to answer, so he dropped the thoughts of his failure out of his mind temporarily and slipped back along the path, veering towards where her voice had come from. The boy did not waste much time as he navigated the snow-hewn plateau once he set his mind to it: and when the golden shape of his sister emerged in his periphery, he called out in lieu of their company colliding: Nieve!