Elara had opened her mouth, almost in a half-snarl to verbally cut the mortal before her down to size for her insolence, but she paused at the sound of Cyne's voice behind her. The vampire queen turned to give the prince her explanation but he knew who the mortal mage in the cell was already. And she knew him by sight as well, very well, by the way she covered herself as best she could. Elara considered giving the girl a cloak but even that small kindness towards the woman's modesty would be seen as sympathetic to someone who had killed her own kind. And Elara, so new to her position and trying to put down the dissenters and send off the more violent ones among the ranks, could not have anyone thinking her sympathetic to this mortal.<br/><br/>With a heavy sigh, Elara stepped away from the cell a bit, pinching the bit of skull between her eye sockets in irritation. So Keagan at least was not trying to break the treaty himself... but this woman... this mortal mageling in her cell was trying to protect the 'crown'. But the crown was on Keagan's head still, and would be passed down to one of the other mewling offspring the irritating King had. She snorted as the woman apologized to Cyne, shaking her head a little and crossing her arms across her chest, still looking foreboding while Cyne gave her the dressing down of her life, laying the guilt on thick. Elara needed to make a point across to this woman, if she cared for her former prince at all.<br/><br/>The vampire queen moved to stand in the prisoner's point of view again, still allowing her to see Cyne clearly but making sure that the woman understood Elara was the one in charge, the one who made the decisions in this dungeon. Elara held life and death in her hands. "Sybil, was it?" Elara began, waving offhandedly to any reply the mortal might make or interrupt her with. "You have broken a treaty that not only the crown you so unashamedly serve signed to, but one that your own prince agreed to be the bargaining chip for. You have killed two of my kind, in my own territory no less, after a peace treaty was signed in your realm. You have endangered yourself, your prince, and your own people to bloody, merciless retribution." What Elara didn't say was that Sybil had effectively bound the queen's hands in showing her any leniency or kindness in a foreign realm; Elara was going to be forced to be the vampire queen incarnate, exacting bloody vengeance for her fallen subjects.