He had spent those final moments dreaming of Crozier, clawing through rocks and ice to get to him, to serve him. To do as he had always wanted and spend his final moments with the man who had been the center of his world for so long.

He had believed himself abandoned, but that question makes him shudder, shivering deep inside of his soul. It cuts deeper than any chill.

"Yes, sir," he answers, the ice in his voice cracked and broken, melting in the warmth of fire and truth.