"You—!" He gestured with a claw towards her face, shaking it, at a loss for words and reluctant to yell his daughter's ears off.  She didn't like to rile up her father like this, but he was being idiotic. If her mother wasn't going to do anything about it – indeed, she seemed to encourage it – it was time she took matters into her own claws, for the good of the kingdom if nothing else.