Nova Peak Until I found a bruise on the other side

he wanted to wax poetic about the inner dome of the bypass, its single entrance, and how even now surely he could find flesh mummified in frost from the kills he had cached long ago. but he stopped himself, enjoying the moment of peace he shared now with the winterwhite.
"maybe ve can go again. vone day. visit your glacier as vell." something warmer touching his mouth, thawing the cold purple of his eyes. 
a second in a splintered time he would remember for the rest of it, something to yank close to his chest in the wintertime of his own melancholy.