Ingrid had a moment with Ziska just earlier this hour.  A [i]moment.[/i]  She hadn't had a moment with almost anyone else up until this point!  All this time in the company and she had to go it alone for some reason, as if everyone here resented her.  So, surely, that moment of kindness should excuse some of Ziska's indiscretion.

And indeed it did.  Some.  Not all.

She stood there while Ziska walked up, stepped back as she literally waltzed up (with oddly practiced form for a Periphery bumpkin), and then simmered, bubbled...

By the time she had offered to defend her honor via a duel - in much the same way Ingrid herself had said multiple times prior - she was just short of boiling.

[color=SteelBlue]"Ziska,"[/color] she said, low and quiet as she began to roll up her carefully maintained sleeves, [color=SteelBlue]"I would thank you for the thought if you were sincere, [i]but I am not stupid enough to fail to notice when I am being made a mockery of...[/i][/color]