Not to put a damper on the fun, but I'm assuming that during all this Twilights family thinks she's totes deceased?

They do. Well, they each hold out some hope that she escaped her captors but they fear the worst. So they built a small cairn for her and adorned it with any wild flowers they could find.

Shining in particular refuses to believe his sister is actually dead. But in the dead of winter, he can’t go off searching for her… But he has plans when the spring comes.