Hearing that and seeing the cold dismissal in Peter's eyes, Rosie comes dangerously close then to saying something else, something ill-thought and ruinous that would do nothing to help their current situation. She chokes it back, and since she can't draw comfort from Jamie right now--let alone any of the people she's left behind in Darrow--she digs her fingernails into her own palm until she nearly hisses with the pain of it. It's only when Peter leaves again, tossing off the kind of idle threat even she's canny enough to recognize, that she finds herself able to breathe a little more steadily.

"Let's...let's go," she says. She doesn't dare look at Jamie, and even though she knows she's doing it for his own protection, for both of their sakes, it still feels like a betrayal. "To see to the traps."