"There's one woman who trades her daughter's dignity for a man's head and in my mind she looks just like aunt Olivia," she replied with a smirk. "Though she let her daughter keep the prize and I doubt Ellory would have been allowed."

Her eyes flickered up to Cash as she continued. "And the lord himself is omnipotent and omnipresent just like, well, a bit like your father."

And the wrath he exhibited had unnerved even Gretchen - not least because she could very well imagine her uncle inflicting it upon them all if displeased.