The Rose Queen bats away the razor leaves with a wild swing of her saber. She's getting to her feet now, the shock finally giving way to indignation.

"You will not leave this place!" she cries, raising her hand in a clenched fist. "Guards - come to me now!"

There is another resurgence of growth in the thorns, even as Yugo and Tyki tear it away. They have an opening right now, but it won't last long - and you can already here those rose-headed creatures beginning to crawl towards the core of the garden.

She would blast them all to death thorns, but she doesn't want to destroy Steven by accident.