Thin wisps of smoke curl slowly off of Bella's palm. Her fingers twitch slightly as they shake off the aftereffects of tearing an ELF generator in half. She sneers, and lifts that same hand to her shoulder to tug her shirt back into alignment. Her hips sway provocatively as she glides down the corridor past her Lanternites to meet her prey. Step and swish, step and swish. Her Auspex burns with ruby light in the dark corridor. "I guess that means your stuff wasn't worth shit then, huh? But then, my hermeticians were tripping over themselves to get at your gun so we know [i]that's[/i] not true. Ah, let's think... it's you, shit for brains. You lost because you're weak." Her arms swing casually at her sides with every bouncy, silent step. Every muscle in her body sings a song of confidence and safety that draws followers into her wake. She raises a hand to halt them where they stand. This battle is already over, there's only one person who hasn't figured that out yet. Bella pauses a half step out of the serpent girl's range. She stretches her neck, and glances down when her stomach rumbles irritably. Gods, she could eat an entire feast by herself right now. "Let me ask you, do you know where you are? Do you know who you picked a fight with? This is The [i]Anemoi[/i], you stupid cunt, Her Imperial Majesty Nero Claudius Tellurian's very own dagger among the stars. We chase greater prey than you could even imagine if we gave you a year and a picture book to help you along." The knife comes at her in slow motion. Bella twists out of the way with a simple pivot on the balls of her feet and snatches the blade out of the pirate's hands as if [i]she[/i] were the snake, not even caring that she's grabbing it by the blade. She flips it over and snatches it again by the handle just before she lunges to seize her opponent by the head and throw her roughly against the wall. Bella clicks her tongue with the air of a disappointed teacher as she watches the other woman flop silently to the floor and shake her head to clear the impact. Bella's eyes flicker over to Athena as she carefully watches the war goddess for her reaction. "Now, [i]I'm[/i] willing to chalk this little misunderstanding up to a lack of education. You can't have any good schools so far out here in the sticks, or else... well. Let's fix that, shall we? War's not about stuff. War's never been about 'stuff'. Molech had the Spear of Civilization and Her Majesty crushed him and took his empire just the same." She scowls. Memories of the museum were all attached to a certain Princess. She flicks them away with the tip of her tail before the name can crawl its way all the way to the front of her mind. She lifts her claws to the knife and shreds the blade to the point of uselessness by way of demonstration, and in that moment she's forced to handle another charge. Bella snarls and snaps a vicious kick across her worthless student's face. The impact ripples down her leg, and when she matches it to the vibrations of the bone impact in that cavernous skull, her Auspex registers an almost certain concussion. "...We'll make this simpler, then. I'm a stronger than you are, you stupid fucking scum sucking parasite. You're as outmatched here as you are stupid and ugly. Quit wasting my time. I'm offering you your life, dipshit. Pull your head out of your ass long enough to fucking take it already!" Bella flinches. Despite her best efforts, a memory rolls to close to the surface of her thoughts for her to ignore it. She knows what she's supposed to do here, because she saw her... saw [i]the[/i] princess get chewed out a hundred times for forgetting it. So she covers for Redana, just like always, and dips into a courteous bow. It's wasted on this cretin. But the next attack would be the last, Athena can't ask for fairer than that.