"All these threats, all these words about power, about fear… it doesn't impress me. It doesn't scare me. It just shows… how hollow you are inside." She once again smiled. It wasn't that nasty, freaky one, no, it was a serious one, as she looked inside Joseph's eyes. "How desperate you are to make people bow so you can pretend you're something you're not. You can talk about wiping out everything, your Cassian this, your Cassian that… and maybe you could. Maybe you could destroy people, organizations, lives… but do you know what that makes you? A coward hiding behind a name, because all your so-called power is meaningless without respect, without loyalty that isn't born of fear from a legacy and stories not even true."
She said it well, and for the first time now Joseph understood that she was truly an intelligent woman, a woman who was acting… acting to be this whore, but in reality she was more than that, more than what she showed herself.
