With the Rose Queen’s attention off the changelings and the waterworks beginning, Lambert’s course of action is decided. He straightens up, looking at Strange and Rita, then Syrlya, and shakes his head. The Queen’s proven to be singularly irritable whenever Strange has spoken to her, so perhaps it’s best to try and get him back out of her radar, if he’ll even listen.

“There’ll be time for her to hear about that later, Strange,” he says, pointedly. “And it shouldn’t be from you.”