The empress, during the uneventful and disastrously long speech had almost fallen asleep. In fact she was [b]trying[/b] to the entire time. But right as she was about to doze off, a voice perked up and was quite evidently directed at her. Internally she screamed and swore, she had really been trying to inconspicuously fall asleep and now someone [b]DARED[/b] to interupt that! The words that passed through her thoughts were not words that one would expect from a respectable lady. Externally she casually stretched her arms upwards, popping the joints slightly with the strain. With a rather dainty turn of her head, she peeked out of the very edge of her periphery to spot a rather ugly little man whose head was grossly out of proportion with his body. 

To a human, age wasn't really discernable from his carapice. But to Jessibelle, who herself is a spider, the age was quite evident. He was old, and his accent was a drawl of southern descent. The south is where her name was derived from, so it would have reminded her of home. If her father hadn't raised her in the Ahs Chini homelands.

[i]Oh, wait. There it is. There's the compliments. Ugh. He's a white knight, "I'll protect you my lady."[/i] In her head she mocked every word that left his mouth. With a feigned smile, though perfectly executed, she turned her head towards the older man. "Well, hello my good sssir. It'ss good to ssee another Arachnid like mysself. And what iss a Gentleman, like yoursself, doing here amongsst this crowd of- Rather dissreputable company?" With that she swept her hand around the room, pointing out some of the uglier criminals that are amongst the group. Jessibelle figured that this fellow was likely some sort of thief or criminal mastermind, the people gathered in this 'maze' were pretty much all bad people. Herself included, she must admit. "One could fear that you're a sspy for thosse whom we've gathered to- Dissposse of."