Karena jumps between them. "Stop it! Both of you, please! Shizuru, leave him alone. He's done nothing to you. But one little thing." Karena seems to hesitate slightly, when something changes in her sweetened voice. Her pleading face morphs, now vicious and cold-hearted and beautiful. "You are truly the fool I took you for if you threaten Flint and mock my mother in the same breath. Flint, I love you. Please, let me do this."