Vashti laughed again. Did she not understand how this place functioned? It was as if she thought that those in this house responded to anything but power. Everyone, for the most part, treated each other with gentility and care... Except when someone decided to upset the order. Lady Shelley just did not understand.

"Ah, there is the problem... If you do not assert your control, then you will not be treated like a human, but just a tool. Do you not know that any order you give will be obeyed without question unless Ishamael, for some reason, orders it reversed?"