Childermass is happy enough to stay quiet for a time, even if he does give Tyki a sharp look for his previous words. Peridot scolds first, however, and so he leaves it at that. Then, back to listening, considering. The Summer Court has its own problems, their goal from them obviously the Blue Rose, but as for Winter—

"She could not even bring herself to kill the man who went too far against her wishes," Childermass has to bring up, again Lambert becoming a point to make, that the Ringmaster could have easily killed him and forced him to return through an egg as well. "If we strike anyone," and yes, the we is important, "it won't be out of vengeance, for all that some amongst us may feel otherwise."

Then Peridot is speaking up again, asking that. It's something, maybe surprisingly, maybe not, that he can answer, though his will be vaguer than if it came from the source (who happens to be massive and nervously hovering over them right now).

"The Winter Queen betrayed the Ringmaster's trust, back when she was still the Maiden," he adds as an aside, turning to look back down at Peridot. "So it is a fair enough assumption to make..." Which brings him to looking up, up, way up towards the Ringmaster herself. "Whether you care to expand upon that or not, I leave it to you."