Rising Sun Valley lorewatch

was it something he had done? or perhaps said! had he missed a visit, had he denied wake; he had done something to fall from grace? but what! "come back!" he begged into the eye of the storm.
snow billowed, but not snow at all. a figure which startled his peripherals until the mayfair turned. a grey dove of a woman, her expression something like his own. 
"are you al-all right?" called lestan, recovering both his sense and his practical manners.
but where was wake?