"If Elysium is a neutral court for fae, what we said never mattered to begin with..."

Which is unsurprising. They aren't fae, even if, arguably, one of them is half. Childermass turns towards the Ringmaster, maintaining a calm that is actually taking far more effort than anyone could guess.

"The Athenaeum would have a book recording what happened to the old Winter Queen, wouldn't it?"