He does not want to return to Terror. Crozier has learned enough about survival in the past months that he thinks he can find his way back to Rescue Camp and even to Back’s River given enough time, hunting as he goes, building snow-houses or skin tents when the inevitable storms arise. He can seek out his scattered men this summer, ten months after he abandoned them, and find some trace of them, even it if takes years. Silence will follow him if he chooses this path — he knows she will — even though it means the death of everything she is and everything she lives for here.
