[Her face twists again as Alphinaud sallies past the question she so wished answered. Ah well; temper flashes briefly in her eyes, but nothing ventured, nothing gained, as she so well knows. He is the scholarly one; Yotsuyu's goal is to survive, as she has for so long. So long. ]

I did what I had to. [Unsurprisingly, it is not an apology. But did he really expect that from her? If she is ashamed of what she's done in the past, it is buried with so much else. Freedom may be within her grasp, and all she has to do is reach out...and take it. But at what price? She has not forgotten what Gosetsu did for her. And what she owes him, even now.]

You and I are here. And the princeling is not. The emperor is not, and they might have no power, should they appear. I see no need to continue our aforementioned differences, in that light. I doubt you can extend true friendship to one such as I; but I see no need to be enemies. At least for now.

[Of course, should Zenos or Varis find themselves here, her alliances might have to change. Or have an illusion of changing, at the very least. However, the ancestors know she'd try to weasel out of that, now. Yotsuyu has no desire to be a pawn again, of Garlemald or anywhere else for that matter.]