"I am aware of the pathetic excuses given. I want a satisfactory answer, followed closely by a return to where I am actually needed."

For all the anger coursing through her, Cassandra does not move closer to physically threaten the woman, simply remaining where she loomed. She understood hierarchy well enough to understand whipping the underling would hardly gain her the results she sought. It was still a possibility, of course, should the conversation go poorly enough. But not one she was hoping to step down. The woman had not done her direct harm, so as Cassandra knew. But may give her the names of those which had.