Ivar's face falls at Bucky's words, reminding him of the other sort of difficulties Winter was facing besides just having unusual powers.

"Well, she has me." That one sentence made it quite clear where her mother stood on the matter. She barely held her and considered her to be an abomination. Ivar hadn't forgotten how she'd seriously considered his suggestion of putting her in the woods to die if she wasn't going to raise her up with love. He loved Letha, as much as he was capable of doing, but this has caused a rift between them.

"Letha... she doesn't see her the same way I do. Women who feel about their children the way she does tend to abandon them in the forest so the wolves will kill them where I'm from." Ivar's own father had tried to, but the love he held for his son overcame the desire for a merciful end. In his darker moments, Ivar sometimes wish he had, rather condemn him to the hard life he'd had.