Lost boy

Kassander's footsteps paused as he heard the sound of a young body barreling through the snow. He watched as his younger brother flashed past after a rabbit, zigging and zagging until both rabbit and boy disappeared from sight again. Well, he'd intended to track down his siblings, and here was the perfect opportunity. Sigmarr, who he had probably alienated at least as badly as he had Val.

Picking up the pace once more, the boy followed his brother's trail through the snow to a rabbit burrow - he must have missed. He followed the trail that led away, moving into a lope to catch up. "Sigmarr?" he called uncertainly, hoping his brother would stop rather than take off - and that if Sigmarr did stop he wouldn't rip off Kassander's ears as he kind of deserved.