[ It's such a... nice thing to say. It says nothing about her magical prowess, or even the fact that she was a Praesi noble -- one who'd drawn the eye of below and above, and made that deal with powers far beyond her. It had nothing to do with that...

And yet everything. It was everything to do with that.

She smiled, weakly. ]

I can hope so.

[ She disagrees, of course, that it will erode what makes them strong, but... perhaps there were ways in which it would. She, too, had to become stronger, by finding those places, in which she had to bend, or grow. Her fellow Pleroma would, as well. ]

I do hope I can guide some of them. It's... a hard path, to stray from. Intoxicating, in its own way.