Redhawk Caldera glinderwood

Teya's rage simmers beneath her words and Reyes doesn't know how to help her.

Is she okay? Reyes didn't think to specify which she he spoke of; his mind was on Towhee immediately. He ought to have run across that border and demanded more insistently that they talk; or at the very least, recognized that she had been elsewhere. 
What had she been doing that would take her away from the caldera anyway? Away from her kids, who until that point were dependent on her alone?

She not let you back in? The cutting tone of Teya's voice snapped Reyes back to reality for a moment.

No; her guard held me at the border. The ridge of his spine began to puff a bit at the memory of the white walker. The way he had so swiftly obeyed Meerkat and sought to expel the man from his rightful place among his children was, to be blunt, bullshit of the highest order.