He sighed heavily as she gave her explanation. Clearly it hurt her just as much as it hurt him, and he only had to wonder why. Why did she want this assassin to 'escape' her crimes, her fate? "Why did you want to save her though...? She put a blade to your neck, killed a good man to drag you away, would've killed me if she had the chance... And you wanted her to escape justice? Why? Any man would be properly tried for a murder, but she did far worse, and you wanted to just let her go..." Marken was normally more charismatic, someone who knew how to control his words better than this. As it stood, in his inebriated state, he was doing good not to slur his speech.

That's why he felt betrayed. She hadn't just been angry at him for attacking Ariana, plunging a blade into her chest, she'd been trying to take someone who deserved justice completely away from his grasp, away from the kingdom. She wanted an assassin, who had even tried to kill his mother, loosed upon the world once more. There in lied his anger... "I just want to know why you thought she didn't deserve justice, why she should've been allowed to walk free, after she so brazenly poisoned my mother, killed one of my guards, and tried to take you off to that kingdom away from me." His tone was almost begging. He didn't want to lose her now, after he'd just won her over...