Caldwyn turned and gave the Queen a sharp look at her choice of wardrobe, to which she raised a single dark brow, arched as if to say 'what?' but shook his head without reprimand and nodded his morning greeting to Caldwyn when he began to rise from the bed. The elder vampire mage had finished his meal and rose from his seat, leaning heavily on a staff of dark wood when the knocks sounded and the impertinent mortal entered the room. At Sybil's inflection that perhaps Elara was not yet dressed, Caldwyn had to duck his head to hide his smirk. Elara would not take that well at all and Sybil might lose her tongue for her trouble, sassing the Queen this early.<br/><br/>Elara, however, flicked a hand in greeting and even took a moment to indulge Cyne with a small smile before folding her hands before herself, her arms decorated with cuffs of metal. Not precious platinum, silver, or even gold, but steel that had been worked and shaped and elongated to cover her forearm with only a couple inches at each end revealing flesh. "You are always going to be impending, mortal. You were not part of the bargain struck to keep the peace between your kingdom and my realm. And you knew this going into this situation, so do not pretend to give me empty apologies and platitudes now. You will lift your eyes to look at me when you speak to me though. I want to see your eyes and know if you are lying when I speak to you."<br/><br/>Her voice rang out like steel, displeased  from the expression on her face.  "There are all kinds of armor that can defend you in different situations. This one, will serve its purpose while I calm my citizens when they see your murderous face and call for your head and I tell them that you were defending yourself before my citizens who disobeyed my law and have so done me a favor in disposing of annoyances." Elara's icy blue eyes fixed on Sybil's briefly before she flicked them once to each soldier on either side of the woman, telling her without words what it would cost Sybil to not toe the line and keep up with the lie the vampire Queen had woven for her.<br/><br/>Caldwyn moved back by Cyne's side as the two females seemed to be having a meeting of the minds, either one equally as dangerous to the other. He started to lean toward the mortal prince to say something but stopped and straightened again as Elara's voice echoed out again. "Today, you will be accompanying me before both my Council, and the citizens of my realm. There will be questions, concerns, outright rage and confusion everywhere I'm sure, and my job will be to soothe and calm them. One step out of line, Mortal, and my<i>loyal</i>soldiers have free reign to drink you dry. Are we clear?" Elara had started to walk slowly while she spoke, one step and then the other, toward the other female, her eyes narrowed and waiting for an answer not two feet before Sybil when she paused.