Like when he ran into Rae, Winter is still smashing artifacts himself. He stops when he sees Nia. Narrows his eyes at her.

But he's had a day or two to calm down. And hearing her sound like a normal, scared, upset person has taken her down from "handler" level of authority in his head, a little bit. And she hadn't known. He knows how that feels like. How mad he was.

So he says after a long moment: "I didn't know I had an entity with its claws in me when I got here, either."