"All safe?" she asked, sounding bitter. "I wasn't friends with all the kids on the Isle. I actually had very few friends at all. Learned that lesson early. We weren't raised by good people to be good people," she snapped. "We were raised to be villains. Until just before we left the Isle, none of the four of us had friends. Jay was the closest I had and we were both sure the other was going to stab us in the back as soon as there was a reason to. I know he was planning to use me to steal my mother's staff. We weren't friends. We just stole together. If I died, he'd have been the best thief on the Isle. Instead of always being second best." she shrugged, realizing she was getting off topic. "CJ and Freddie came over without permission. Shri... Uma," she corrected herself, kidnapped Ben and held him hostage to try and get the magic wand. She later spelled him for the same purpose. To lower the barriers and let everyone be free. We had to chose to close the barrier forever, no more in and out for the few VKs who had proven that we could adjust to Auradon, or let all the VKs have a try. And just as we came up with a plan to let all the kids have a chance, to see if they could adjust or if like CJ all they wanted to do was be just like their parents... all this happened. I don't know, maybe it is the universe telling us we let the wrong people out. Someone stole something to start this all out, after all. Someone broke the rules in such a way that EVERYONE vanished. Isle and Auradon both. These are not small things, Mallia. And once all of you get to go home, we have to deal with the fall out we have to figure out who to punish and how, or if they already suffered enough, whatever enough means. We have to live here! So if you could spare me your certainty that you know what is best I'd appreciate it!" she snapped.

And maybe, just maybe, those words were aimed as much at Lea as at Mallia.