[A giggle was most definitely not the response Leslie expected from calling her friend unsettling, her confusion evident on her face. But at least it's clear that she's not angry at her friend being...apparently assessed exactly as he intends?]

It's like the way the Salvatores started the rumour calling them monsters...though I don't think it's the same reason.

[At the very least, she knows one of the Salvatores' reasons is to keep the imperial family from growing jealous of their strength, and this is Hubert's imperial family explaining his sinister act. (She didn't say it was an act. Just that he plays it up.)]