"You think?" Beau gets out, yelling from where she's sheltering behind Gongenzaka. No wonder most of the Winter Court didn't bother fighting, or lying in wait in the throne room. With a Queen with this kind of lethal power on hand, there was no need to.

It's a moment like this that really drives home just how outclassed the ordinary mortals are, even with the temporary boost. If the Winter Queen had gone out looking for the carnival directly, instead of staying home and letting lackeys handle it... They would have been dead meat, and she might never have escaped Eden.