If you want loyal people following you, you have to make them loyal somehow. Arianna has chosen to use fear and money, and those aren't the best choices for long-term success. In fact, they're just about the worst choices. Look at the Mafia and how they fell apart in New York when the Feds got a couple of wise guys to testify against the big bosses.

We'll see some of the fallout from this failed mission in the next chapter, which will be up in a few minutes. Happy reading!


Life isn't a support system for writing. It's the other way around.

- Stephen King, from On Writing