"I don't trust she would be safe at home, perhaps safer than this, but I don't know about safe." She didn't trust the General, nor did she really trust the King or Queen, one too rough and demanding, the other so helpless it made her stomach turn. If something were to happen to Zelly, she had doubts that the woman would intercede if the King did not wish ti so, and thus she would not trust either of them. She doesn't go into it much, but there's a clear flavor of distrust on her lips.

"I understand what you mean, though." She adds after a moment, this was not a safe place for Zelly, not a healthy place to be. All of them were in danger and it was the ugly, unflinching kind of danger. "But, I think this may be some of what she wanted." After a pause she deflates a little, shoulders slumping. "Adventure, a life outside of the castle. She is safer with you here, and while it is dangerous, at least we are with her rather than her going out on her own."

At least, that's how Winter had reasoned it with herself thus far.