As much as he just wanted to open it up, there were passengers to consider, and it wouldn't be very useful if he arrived and found he'd broken someone's neck by pushing the speed. There was windchill to consider, too.

So it was a rather gentler landing in front of the compound than he traditionally went for, which wasn't to say that his entrance following this was any less abrupt; he marched in, stuck the injured kid on a table and handed off the younger child to the first official looking person he found and marched straight out and took off. He didn't even raise the visor the whole time.

The return journey, he opened it up, staying just above the treeline right up until he cut the engines, threw his hands out in front of him to brake and dropped below it, skidding to a halt a few feet from the tree beside Pepper and her companion.