"Oh, um, good morning." Jessica steps forward, trying not to betray her tension; this thing looks like it could kill them both pretty easily.

"We're from the Gardens outside, um, obviously. And your, uh, queen wanted us to come in and apologise. I'm pretty sure neither of us personally has done anything bad, since this is the first time we've been in here, but... y'know, I'm OK with doing the spokesperson thing here, and if there's anything we've screwed up on, um, sorry about that, too. We're pretty clueless here."

As an afterthought, she adds: "Anything we can do to help, um, relations here? I mean, if we're neighbours, we might as well try to help each other out."