I'm not asking for you to apologize, anyways. [ he waves his hand, cutting through even the implication of that. ] I would ask if you'd give us this week, and a chance to prove there's not a cycle in place.

If there is a death that we can't prevent, and it turns out that the culprit - forced or otherwise - is from Winter, the same as Kaoruko and Rupert, I'll help you pose the suggestion.