[She doesn't respond immediately, taking the time to mull over his words. The Admiral's brought her back from the dead three times. He's got some sort of stake in her, and she's got plenty in his approval. But he's also at least partly responsible for two of the deaths, and really, power not giving him the right is Erik's whole point, one she agrees with.]

He doesn't, really. But I've lived most of my life at the mercy of demigods, and I prefer capricious and presumptuous to...contemptuous. Repulsed.

I suppose that makes me coward.