"Hasn't been different for anybody else," Winter points out. Look, he doesn't blame Stevie for wanting to have faith. That's a nice trait. But in this case, he just wasn't looking at some important details. "If you aren't going back to see them again, it doesn't matter a whole lot. The trade-off for stopping them would be nobody has illusions and everybody looks like they really look."

So he's torn on that, too. Somebody like Rue or Cortana not having that protection would... suck. A lot. But it means their protection also comes from fear. Whose fear? How much? He doesn't know.