For a few moments, Bethany seemed to shrink even more behind the slightly smaller frame of the Princess when Christina's attention turned to her. Eyes being on her... it was just a bit too much, especially after what one of the knights had done to her. However, after a few moments, the girl realized she was being apologized to and took a deep breath before managing a stuttering response.

"I-it's okay, I... I'm s-sure you had your reasons," she said, averting her eyes. Bethany had no idea what those reasons could possibly be, but there had to be something. Instead of looking at the knight, however, she instead busied herself by staring slightly to the right of the Princess's back, at the floor. More specifically, the large, ornate carpet. It was all she could do to keep herself from degenerating into an incoherently-stammering mess.

Eliabelle's mind, at least, was taken off of the strange circumstances when Ian spoke to her. Yes, a hundi on top of being a knight! She'd only ever seen one once before, a diplomat when she was a little girl. She hadn't exactly been in the position to ask too many questions of them.

"It's very nice to meet you, Sir Ian," she said, curtsying as she did. Ah, there... even under such circumstances she would get to meet more of them! "I'm very happy to see a hundi in the Iron Rose Knights' ranks, I'm so interested in your culture!"

When Gillian spoke, she turned to him as well.

"A Griffin?" Eliabelle asked. She'd read about them prior, but naturally even with her attempts to understand as much of the world as she could, it was difficult to do so given her position. The Princess did know what could be read of griffins, however. Highly intelligent, sometimes social, vicious predators. However, for all their intelligence, a skilled hunter or knight could still tangle with one. She'd even heard that one of the original Iron Roses had killed one as a child, though that was so long ago.