Valerie listened to the young man and sensing the chance to escapes a battle she would almost certainly lose she added in, "If you do not condone their actions, then why fight for them?  If you don't want to see them harming innocents, then why don't you stop them yourselves?  That's what I'm doing, and so is Lady Laplace.  Now choose, either fight me, flea, or turn your lance to a better cause!"