Fantastic. I never caught the parallels before, but you've laid them out so brilliantly here - Windhover and Northwest Passage and the frozen north. I love Fraser finally getting his happy ending. This is how it should have gone, with the storm and the lean-to and the church steeple, and I'm so glad for them to have gotten it right this time.

Ray and the Northern Lights with his breath all silver is an arrestingly beautiful image, too. *wishes for fanart*