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He seemed to enjoy putting her down, or twisting her attempts at insults back at her. She supposed she couldn't be surprised. He was a villain, and she was... not particularly good at harsh words. It was not, surprisingly enough, something that had ever been covered in her private classes, and it seemed that just because she had studied some of the great academic plays it didn't mean that she was much good at improvising her own aggressive dialogue. But still she tried, only because it gave her some strength, and left her from feeling utterly helpless.
"Were you not engineered to be the ultimate magical threat to Gaia? It seems an oversight, that you were not engineered with my abilities," Garnet countered. Again, she was poking the dragon which was probably a very bad idea, but it helped her find her strength when standing before him. "You are correct though, I do think you weak, but not for that reason. I think you weak because you were blessed with a brother who would have loved you, would have been your family, and you cast him aside out of your own jealousy. I think you weak because you gave him to your selfish emotions, and your own fear. I think you weak because you only ever think of yourself, and use and destroy those around you..." It was a different kind of weakness, of course. Garnet knew that Kuja was incredibly dangerous when it came to his combat abilities. But that didn't make him any weaker in her mind. "If you wished to see how somebody strong in your situation would behave, you should have looked to Vivi when you had the chance." Vivi had every reason to be as angry, as lost, as Kuja, but he had been noble, brave and strong, and faced his end with dignity.

"I would have preferred to mind my own business also, but unfortunately, that did not seem an option," she confessed in retort. It wasn't much of a response, of course, but she was regretting this entire endeavour.

So he admitted he had evil schemes, but sadly this girl knew nothing about them. Well, that might not be the case. She still might have some information, and Garnet had already found out something. Kuja had not brought her there, and had no interest in her. He didn't know where the others were. He was up to something, but it seemed to be slow. She had time to find out. To formulate a plan to stop him.

She turned to follow his instructions.
"I shall deliver your message about the gil," she replied, because... well, Garnet was nothing if not polite. She didn't want to stoop to his petty level and steal gil off of him. Zidane would roll his eyes at that, of course. She turned to head off in the direction she had been told to follow. She paused only for a moment, to turn back, however. "Kuja... I am not a naive little princess anymore. I am aware that today could have gone very differently. I know that you have spared me, even if it is out of your own disinterest. But I shall not allow it to change anything. You have committed crimes against Alexandria and the people I am responsible for. One day, I shall find a way to bring you to justice," she told him. She didn't quite realise the truth of her words until she said them, but she did now realise that she had rushed into this foolhardily, and while perhaps there was some truth to her words that she could have held out long enough until other adventurers had come along, he could have just as easily abducted her first. He had, in his own way, spared her.

But she would not allow that to soften her feelings towards him. She would find a way to stop him. She had to...