How dare a mortal question her? Why was he always like this, he could have simply done as she asked and everything could have been fine. She could have gotten what she wanted, he could have bedded a goddess and as long as he stayed loyal only to her nothing else would have mattered. Still he told her to be silent and she felt like she should. She could give a bit more and then get everything she wanted. OH? He was going to give her what she wanted, many times over?! That was exactly it. Finally, this ridiculousness was paying off. Defiling the Underworld with the King of Heroes, and maybe taking it over first to put Kur back in her place after all that nonsense with her deaths and requirements? "Y-" she'd been about to speak but her discarded clothing was shoved into her mouth. She couldn't speak around it and it was probably for the best that she couldn't. Asked... no told to bend over she found herself, doing as asked if only because he could only lead her so wrong at this point right? Wrong. He didn't intend to insert himself into her at all. He snapped his fingers and released the cages on this lowest level of Irkalla and souls of the numerous came out. And one of them finally succeeded in penetrating her body. Nothing but a muffled noise escaped her as this happened and the look of smug satisfaction on Gilgamesh's face was something she missed due to her turn around. Her ears worked though, she knew it wasn't that glorious tool she sought. It shouldn't have been like this, she only wanted Gilgamesh why was he being like this. But her body was always accommodating.
Artoria heard words of encouragement from the Sun King and they made her smile just a little. For all of his niceness she could almost think of a man like him as the big brother of the world. Just there with encouragement and good advice. She still wasn't completely sure what she was going to do with the King of Heroes for daring to die in such an abysmal way. "I will..." she gave a firm nod. Soon after in just a few moments she was heading to the dining hall from the baths, but before doing so she went to get Siduri, she wasn't about to have breakfast prepared by someone and not eat with them, that went against her entire code as a human. "Siduri," she started. But upon reaching the throne room with that large sword still over her shoulder she saw a strange man conversing with her blessed wine-maker. "My Queen, this is Rim-Sin of Larsa, King of Nippur," said Siduri instead of answering the man's question on when he would see the Queen. Artoria approached directly swinging the sword over her shoulder and planting it into the ground, knowing that the wine-maker was infinitely more comfortable when she wasn't holding a large sword in her hands while talking to new people. "Oh, I did not actually expect anyone to answer such a summons in a timely manner," she said with nothing but poise in her soul. "I see... I am Artoria Pendragon, Queen of Knights, the one who currently sits on this throne in Uruk," she said while looking at this man directly. Her eyes were on him, shining with emerald fire as she took in the look of him. "So you are the king who made the audacious request for 20 cows for 20 shekels of silver. Going rate for a single cow is 10 shekels of silver, Rim-Sin. If you actually expect to get something so ridiculous I would have words," Artoria said that exactly in such a way that Siduri's eyes widened. Was she just faster about killing people than the King of Heroes when she was annoyed. "So do you, King of Nippur, actually expect such a thing?" Ah, yes, Artoria was the type to cut straight to the chase, seemingly without even the slightest hiccup or pomp. Why? Because she wasn't in the mood. She also had breakfast and people waiting on her, if she needed to slay this man, she'd do so and then go have breakfast.