Jean-Claude offers her a level look. She might outrank him, but as far as he is concerned she is but a child. He has centuries on her and he will not be intimidated just by her position, no matter how much it may work on others.

"What is stopping us?" he repeats, musing right back at her. "Forgive me, madame, but you have no insight into the world of Vampires. We must be careful in how we handle such dissent. It is as I have said, half of the nest agrees with him, and that half would take pleasure in cutting the rest of us down to make an example of themselves in front of their good leader." He tilts his head at her. "There is a way in which these things must be handled. A way they were clearly not handled before." Otherwise they would not be in this predicament, of course.