The Winter Queen doesn't seem taken back by being scolded, but she does seem immensely spiteful about the general concept. She sneers at them, standing up from her throne.
"I told you I would handle it," she snaps at the Ringmaster, and at everyone else by proxy. "Is that really so difficult for you to understand? You had managed to follow instructions so well up till that point..."
The Ringmaster, for her part, seems lost. It's not like she hadn't been expecting scorn, after everything the Winter Queen has ostensibly done! She just doesn't understand at all why anything had to happen like this.
"Winter..." she says, her voice falling. She's genuinely confused, and even now, this hurts to hear from her own mouth. "I don't... I don't understand. I don't know why you did this to me. We... We were... Everything..."
"Spare me," the Winter Queen says, cutting off the Ringmaster's pleading. The Ringmaster takes a step back. "The Winter Court is broken, and we're the ones that broke it. We all deserve our punishments."
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"I told you I would handle it," she snaps at the Ringmaster, and at everyone else by proxy. "Is that really so difficult for you to understand? You had managed to follow instructions so well up till that point..."
The Ringmaster, for her part, seems lost. It's not like she hadn't been expecting scorn, after everything the Winter Queen has ostensibly done! She just doesn't understand at all why anything had to happen like this.
"Winter..." she says, her voice falling. She's genuinely confused, and even now, this hurts to hear from her own mouth. "I don't... I don't understand. I don't know why you did this to me. We... We were... Everything..."
"Spare me," the Winter Queen says, cutting off the Ringmaster's pleading. The Ringmaster takes a step back. "The Winter Court is broken, and we're the ones that broke it. We all deserve our punishments."