Liliana Vess Defiant Necromancer

They needed to be stopped at all costs was what.

"Well, if you must know, I was hoping to be invited back into their little coffea klatsch, she huffed. "In no small part because if they're going to continue blundering into problems, I want to know up front what they're doing and who they're antagonizing, so I can prepare myself for whatever happens. I certainly don't wish to get caught in the middle of things because of their short-sighted ignorance."

She let that linger there in the air between them, as if that was all she was going to say, before relenting and adding, "And because they may prove to be useful."

And then, even more reluctantly still, "...and, because, it wasn't the worst thing. Standing up to Emrakul. Keeping her from killing you..." And then she put on her most ungracious and truculent expression. "And if I'm going to be pulled into doing so anyway..."