"Usually they didn't have helpful fairy lights." That did take away from the rather romantic feeling of being utterly lost in windswept whiteness. "I'm from a northern country," he continued. "So most of my journeys were in more southern climes. You can't go anywhere without leaving, after all."

He suspected that Rumlow would pick up on the subtext: Nash had specialized in foreign missions.

"I do think it would be good to wait it out for a while." He could probably keep going, but the journey was supposed to take days, and they weren't being chased. "Besides, I think I owe you an explanation, right?"