Jean-Claude can understand why Joscelin is upset, especially for such reasons as that. He doesn't particularly feel the necessity to defend Nancy to him, especially when he's still uncertain where her allegiances are himself. But if there's one thing that's certain.

"Cooper is old enough not to make his decisions based on who is warming his pillow." He glances about the crowd, before switching to French lest they be overheard. "Cesare may be older but he would let his hate for Sylvia Redbright cloud his judgment for our future well-being. Please, my friend, listen to me when I say that this is for the best. I do not want to be held singularly accountable for the rights of our kind. I have spent enough of my life playing the whipping boy as it is."