The crystalline room was silent, or at least as silent as it could be considering five of its occupants were suffering from some degree of either panic or pain. Valentina's growl still tickled at the back of her throat, silenced but not forgotten. Despite conflicting desires to run away and also bite the intruding woman's head off though, she managed to hold herself back. For now at least. After a moment of swallowing her aggression, the vampiress finally responded to the woman.
"Pretend to be civilised, huh? You say that as if you're not the one who broke into our shelter, but yeah, sure, let's pretend. So, why are you here and how can we get rid of you?"
Some of the playfulness from earlier had left the woman's expression and she now looked at the Archduchess with newfound contempt.
