Winter finds he wants to do the same, wants to cry and-- and howl and mourn. He hasn't cried out of sadness that he can remember... it's always been happy tears. People keep doing things that make him so happy it spills out of his whole stupid face. That is not this feeling.

If he cries now, he's not going to be able to do anything for a long time, he thinks. He swallows it back with painful effort. "Rue. We need to go. Get out of here." Surely Rue isn't going to go through the portal. They just... said it was a trap.