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"Just to hear you say it again, darling," Wraen told him with a glint of laughter in her eyes. This had not been her purpose at all, but, when challenged like this, she had to appear more clever in the situation than she had actually intended to be. Honesty was not always interesting.

"Leadership means may things to different people, but in the very core it is about making the right friends and connections, having people trust and respect you, being diplomatic most of the time, but not hesitate to use authority and be stern, when it is necessary," she explained.

"Besides difficult times may call for a different kind of leader than the one you can afford to have, when all is going well," Wraen continued. "It also depends on the people, what kind of person they elect to be their leader. For example, I am surrounded, by very strong and independent-minded individuals - they would not tolerate anyone, who would try to curb their freedom.

Whereas you might and will find people, who put up with a tyrant, they find safety in the knowledge that someone else does the thinking for themselves and that they have to contribute very little," she said. "A rowdy group of bachelor wolves would choose a different leader, perhaps, based on the physical strength and cunning. And then there are those, who formally have a leader, but in reality someone else is doing the plotting."