"Mmmffrrble, mrrmMMmm[i]fhthrrrph[/i] mmmrrrgh!"

It's useless for Alina to try right now. The knot gag shoved between her dainty lips has her tongue trapped underneath a lump of perfumed silk that doesn't let her mouth even close, let alone form the kind of complex shapes that would let her make words. Her speech is so garbled that even she doesn't know what it was she'd been trying to say. All she can do is make her silly noises and hope they sound more worthy of rescue than more teasooooohhhhhhhh, that's a finger on her neck. Good finger, good finger, mmmmmm, there you go, slide lower, slide lower, slide-- eep!

Oh no, how long has she been drooling?!

Alina's eyes are begging eyes, deep green pools covered over with a glossy haze that seems to want so many different things of her savior just now. Eyes that sparkle and cry, 'yes yes, I am deep in the middle of a plan and I [i]need[/i] my Queen to allow me to slip further into Shazari's clutches! Let me see what she wants done with me, let me swim in this moment and lock it in my dreams forever!' Eyes that glisten and beg, 'no no, you idiot, get me out of here! I have an important job to do, and an important kitten to get back to, just set me free and I'll pay you any price you can name!' Eyes that flutter shut and only know the word, 'please, please, please, [i]please[/i], oh!!'

She's straining at her chains, now. She's leaning forward as hard as she can and not caring how much she's drooling on her chest or what her voice sounds like, because she has no words and has to beg. And maybe it's Euphie's fault, or maybe there's always been a little more Mittens in this princess than she'd really prefer to admit, but today begging means lunging forward to press her weight against Rhyza as she buries her silly veil-covered face into that serpentine neck and rubs her cheek against it as she hopes against hope that her message gets across.

But, honestly? She knows she doesn't need it to. Rhyza won't betray her. She might smile like a desert fox and start talking about 'ransoming off a pair of princesses tonight' or whatever flirting strikes her fancy, but she'll never put Alina in a situation that would cause her any harm. This is more... hello. I'm so glad to see you. I'm so glad you're safe. I'm so glad we still get to be friends. 

...Ok fine, this might also be begging. Are you happy yet, Rhyza? Please, help her out here? P-p... please? Y-you're not g-gona [i]leave[/i] her like this... are you?

Oh, rivers.