He was kind to Hecuba and that was enough to give up every once of magic within herself to perform this act? Morgan was kind to Hecuba, and she didn't expect she'd receive such treatment.
The second part of the explanation made more sense to her: it sounded petty and underhanded and those were things Morgan understood and appreciated. "You people are all so dramatic," Morgan said, as though she wasn't a woman who had spent centuries making the biggest show of everything. "What has Ares done now to turn you against him?"