No one knows a child like a mother; just what kind of temper Pallas had, Lilith knew better than anyone.
"Pity and tolerance are fine virtues in a sovereign, true—but without Orion's supreme strength and standing behind them, they make a man easy to use and easy to fool. A sovereign who can be jerked around is a stain on me, on you, on the Stoneheart Horde, on Orion. A Stoneheart Horde like that—its glory is gone."
Delilah cocked her head and looked Lilith over, an unconcealed surprise in her eyes.
"That's where you and I differ. For blood-feeling, for the great cause, for glory, you can let some things go. Me—so long as Orion didn't say otherwise outright, I'd likely have kicked off a civil war." The Succubus Witch Queen, and Orion's wife—both held Authority, but their footing differed, and so did their thinking.
