As soon as Jude started to sit down, Setsuna's wings shifted, spreading out and curving around her as if to create a barrier. If he so much as ruffled a feather, though... She frowned at her notebook; she really did hate to be interrupted in her work, and Jude would snap like a twig, so simple that it would hardly be worth getting up for...

"Weird, perhaps," she said, "for the Setsuna you knew before. I, however, am not that blind and weak little pawn anymore." She finished a character with a decided stroke, staring at it for a second. "And never again."

She then peeked over at him through a break in the feathers. "I did tell you, Jude, about my bloodline, yes?"