Mallia shook her head again slowly, still not quite getting it. Even if that were the case... it just didn't fit with how she understood hers to work. "Or betrayed by an overzealous guardian of sorts...?" Another head-shake and she sighed, putting it aside. Did it really matter, at the moment? "I'm sorry, poppet.... I'd never intended to harm anyone with any of this." And a vague little gesture to the banquet table.