Dragoncrest Cliffs Pay these dues and wear down these bones

I'm sure you do, she thought with some amusement.  Her earlier rancor is gone.  She has a goal now, and that goal requires that she not think of this man as an enemy for the moment.  Where that might lead she doesn't know, but she'll do whatever it takes, and she can't feel guilty about that.  She learned to separate the physical from what she and Erzulie shared long ago.

Drageda has rules, far too many for my taste.  I'm not a woman who likes chains. I'm surprised you wear them so well. She looked at him with interest, then cocked a small smile.  Horrible she may be, but with Caiaphas, I do as I please.  So it had been in Saltwinter at least.  Contribute what you could, but no requirement of fealty or promise of death on departure.  She'd not liked that about Smokestep's captaincy either and made no secret of it.  No one tied her if she didn't want to be tied.