"How is that good enough?" she blurts out, her voice trembling. "If he won't change, then what's the point? We'd just go back to having one more enemy to deal with... one who'll bring all kinds of information about us back to the Summer Court. The Rose Queen will use that and come back for Steven, and the Rose, and..." She trails off as the possibilities only get her more worked up and anxious.

"And that's only if he goes straight back without turning around and incinerating the whole carnival first!"