Phoenix Maplewood and damage her very soul?

"certainly. but an alliance that benefits you directly, rather than another." praimfaya had the correct sort of idea, mahler believed, and turned his mind to the other things that she had asked. "compatibility in other regards. hunting. travelling."
he remembered how he had had led them from the sunspire and then slackened back behind wylla's lead.
pain in the remembering of it.
"the ability to communicate. and loyalty, in you and in he." loyalty to what the gargoyle did not specify, for she would do such gathering upon her own.