Gugalanna's loss was great? Sure, but it was just a creature, someone could raise it again. "Ugh, it was powerful yes, but it's just a creature. Have Kur return it, if it's so troublesome," she said as if such a thought somehow absolved her. The words of Anu were quite strange as well, if he actually took Metis' side against her, she'd never get her way! Ah, a breath of relief, he saw the potential bad of one like Gilgamesh being left alone with the Chains of Heaven. Good good, she could work with that. Kur, the lass in question with her pink hair showed up again, this time with something obvious to say. "I cannot return it. Unlike you... I understand the full breath of my power. If we are willing to look beyond the fact that I now have hundreds of new dead to deal with because you decided the innocent were an easy sacrifice to your wrath," she started which also made Ishtar scoff. "The return of a Divine Beast would require an equal sacrifice to avoid actually ripping a hole in the underworld. Do you plan to put your life on the line to return it?" she asked of Ishtar who looked a bit sickly under all that blood. Metis heard the girl's words and smiled for the first time in a while. She would be alright, this was good as she was the most likely to catch the ire of the wayward goddess without the other women around.
All the while the conversation around them was shifting. Metis looked on with discontent. If Anu was already speaking about what Gilgamesh had done instead of what Ishtar had done, well... the conversation was already going in a bad direction. Enki, the sniveling fool he was, was willing to try all he could to part Gilgamesh from Enkidu just to give himself a better chance. Given his disposition it was likely a two birds situation, where he could use his statements to garner favor with Ishtar while also getting to finally try and one-up the King Gilgamesh. "Fall into his hands? I told you how this would turn out when you started talking of chaining the king to heaven's will. Enkidu is an individual, he made the choice to stay with his friend... the king was finally given some sense of real humanity and bonding. And your thought now, is to sever that connection and put even more space between us and him? For what? To what end does it actually do us any good to do something so cruel to them?" Metis asked. Her words resonated with the Mother who also saw no reason for added cruelty. Kur for her part in this couldn't abide being that rude to someone who'd actually not gone out looking for trouble. Everything surrounding King Gilgamesh said his actions were reactive, not premeditated. But Ishtar saw her in, and she would take it here and now. "What is friendship between two semi-divine beings, if they have no respect for me... for us. At the very least, they are too strong together, separating them, and letting those chains die, would be good for us all. If would show the power we still have over him and all of mankind... besides, he's just a thing. It doesn't matter how attached he is to it, it's life doesn't matter more than how much it disrespected me!" she said that haughty attitude of hers coming to light. Imagine the look on Gilgamesh's face when she revealed that it was her who got his little friend killed. Then he would have no one but her to turn to, and she could have him as the pet she used to kill the rest of the gods. Starting with Metis, her constant stand against Ishtar had long since been a thorn in her side.