The horror does sink in, but it only fuels Rita's anger. She had some notion of the sort of cruelty Steven was subjected to, and hearing it confirmed makes her blood boil. This is exactly why she hates the Summer Court. How can he say all of this in one breath, and defend one of them in the next!?

"He gave you warning," she spits, incredulous. "You think that makes him so different? You think that makes up for kidnapping people, imprisoning them, enslaving them, using them as tools in a war that has nothing to do with them!?" Her voice grows louder and more shrill with each atrocity she lists. As far as she's concerned, Ignatius fits right in with monsters like the Rose Queen and Nightshade.

"You knew him for two days. I--" she stops, her breath catching in her throat. Was the Rita in Portland really the same person as her? Were those years spent as his changeling real? Rita can't come to an immediate answer to that, so she finishes by instead blurting out, "What the hell do you know!?"