As winter flew towards the area where Sanctuary was going to be built, his thoughts wandered. "So, this is it Winter, this is how your life turned out," he thought as he flew over the desert, only embarking on the journey from Possibility an hour before, "An ex-prince [kind of], a rogue Icewing, and a disappointment to the royal family."
Winter slowed down and craned his neck so that he could look behind him. He saw Possibility as a large speck on the horizon that was slowly becoming smaller and smaller as time went by. He looked in front of himself. He could just barely make out the faint outline of the mountains of the Skywing territory, telling Winter that he'd be in a bit of a limbo over the vast desert for a long time.
Winter looked around the desert as he was flying. Endless dunes and near infinite sand. He spotted an oasis in the far-left distance, too far to bother with flying over for a drink of water and perhaps a bit of food. He had already drank a large quantity of water in preparation for the flight, and Icewings didn't require much food to sustain themselves.
Passing the mark where the oasis was, Winter looked forward as the massive mountains began to take more shape as he flew closer. I would still be a while before he would reach them however and looked backwards to see Possibility. It was no longer visible to him, and he sighed and looked forward again and thought about how he first went to Possibility.
He remembered how stupid he thought the concept was at the time, and generally annoyed at Qibli for mocking him all the time. "Look at me now," he thought to himself, "making a replica of Possibility for me to live in." He pondered again, "Then again, to be fair that was before my father and mother betrayed me by pitting me and Hailstorm together in the Diamond Trial."
He began to seethe with rage and annoyance before ordering himself to think of something different. Immediately he regretted that as his thoughts switched to Moon. "No, stop it now!" he ordered his brain as it disobeyed him and started imagining her and Qibli living together. "Stop!" he mentally screamed as he imagined her and Qibli having dragonets and raising them. "STOP IT NOW!" he mentally commanded himself to stop, and to his relief his mind obeyed.
He calmed himself down and looked forward. In his mental anguish, he had failed to notice that he had reached the mountain range and began to rapidly fly upward to reach to peak of the mountain. As the temperature became lower, he began to see snow on the top of the mountain's peaks.
When he reached the top, he landed in the snow to cool himself off and to the pleasant temperatures of the Ice Kingdom. He then pushed out of the snow and flew above the mountain so that he could see the rest of the mountain range. There were only a few mountains in front of him before he would reach the area where Sanctuary was to be built. Winter was overcome by excitement, "I can build my scavenger sanctuary! I can observe them and study them!" Winter flew over the mountains faster now, barely containing his excitement.
Soon, the area where Sanctuary was to be built was in view. It was a perfect area, with trees and a lake and a nice waterfall that Winter felt quite partial to. Seeing dragons walking around on the floor, Winter looked for Riptide, the leader of the operation for now. Seeing him, Winter took a deep breath and started to fly down toward his new home.