Panic clutched at the members of the Garden Party at as Rose heard the goddess' proclamation, and the near certainty that their golden ally would be affronted by it enough to seal his fate. Amid the panicked discussion's Rose felt Milhiore's hand fall upon her her spirit, as the dog-eared princess took her place at the forefront of their inner gathering, once Sakura had filled them in on a few important social details.<br/><br/>The young girl composed herself, standing just a little straighter and moving with just a little more poise; assuming the regal demeanor of a visiting queen in another domain, "<span style="color: #FF0080">Your Serenity, I am honored by your praise</span>" she began cordially as she curtsied to the ruler of Sigil, "<span style="color: #FF0080">It is undoubtedly your right to defend your honor after being affronted so; but if you would allow it, I would request to appeal your judgement of my ally,</span>" she added humbly as her otherselves swiftly became torn between admiring her, and waiting with bated breath for whatever gambit they were about to attempt.<br/><br/>"<span style="color: #FF0080">The reasoning for my appeal is four-fold: Ignorance, Instinct, Innocence and Inefficiency,</span>" she stated clearly as she concluded her curtsy.<br/><br/>"<span style="color: #FF0080">Ignorance; because we only awoke naught more than a quarter hour before your arrival. None of our current selves even knew of magic before this moment; worst still, while our host told us <span style="font-style: italic">of</span> you he failed to tell us how we would <span style="font-style: italic">know</span> you. For those of us here who lacked knowledge of you, or ways to properly Know your presence, there was little through which to recognize your Serenity amid the candor of battle,</span>"<br/><br/>"<span style="color: #FF0080">Instinct; by which we've had to guide ourselves. Many of us did not awaken to our true nature cleanly, and for most their is still a great imbalance in our spirits allowing us to be driven onwards by knowledge and urges most only half understand,</span>" she says sorrowfully, "<span style="color: #FF0080">Moreover, we were denied the chance to find balance in ourselves when we were suddenly assaulted by the forces you see gathered before us,</span>" she explains as she gestures with both hands towards the gathered demons, vampires, centaurs and assorted forces.<br/><br/>"<span style="color: #FF0080">Reeling from our Awakenings, and finding ourselves swarmed by unknown foes; thus thrust into a life or death battle, many of us were forced to allow those instincts and our pastselves to guide our every move for the hope of survival. It is the highest misfortune that you came to arrive then and we were enthralled in a fight for our lives, and with no way to tell you apart from another foe or the chance you may have been the one to orchestrate this unjust assault on innocents, it is no surprise that the King of Uruk tried to stop you. Lest you have been a foe come to turn the tide and assure our deaths, and given the King's history with deities it is clear to see why he perceived your Serenity as one to be subdued or struck down. Had you truly been an enemy his actions would have been wise and may have saved our lives; it is a tragedy that he instant struck at your person,</span>"<br/><br/>"<span style="color: #FF0080">Innocence in that to punish him, the remnant of a life long since passed that has paid his karmic debt in full through the cycles of reincarnation, would be unjust to the boy who's body the King was defending and to the other remnants that are apart of him. To destroy his very soul for the act of a phantom acting to his best wisdom in a strange world, while unquestionably your right through your power and authority, would be needlessly cruel...and I fear it may work against your own interests and the safety of sigil,</span>" she explained with a bit more trepidation as she got to the meat of her argument.<br/><br/>"<span style="color: #FF0080">Inefficiency, as to destroy him utterly would defeat the purpose for which my people were brought to Sigil. You see each of us here were expressly gathered for our skills and expertise, in order to root out the very malady which plagues your beloved city. Our host has tasked us to deal with a threat that he and his fellow Incarnations have come to call 'The Malignatis Portals', and were told that each of us were needed for the best hope of studying and neutralizing this threat to your beloved city, and the multiverse at large. To strike down Gilgamesh's successor would weaken our forces, causing the loss of both powers and skills which may prove to be crucial to the task this group has been carefully selected for; thereby indirectly lowering our chances to aid you in preserving your city,</span>"<br/><br/>"<span style="color: #FF0080">While I would not dream of asking one such as yourself to fully absolve him for this slight against you, I humbly request that you reconsider your judgement upon him and the innocents who would be destroyed through his punishment. I ask that you leave him under our jurisdiction, such that he may atone for his slight against you by fulfilling his task; thus aiding in your own interests through the preservation of Sigil, and the elimination of very threat that has the gull to assault it so while hiding from your sight,</span>"