The Queen’s been around for a while vs. Sephi’s discontent being more recent.
“When the Society fell, there was a civil war among them until a new leader bound the survivors together and then purged the rest of the gangs. She’s known as the Queen.“
Sephi is Darrow’s ally. But she is not pro-Republic. She disagrees with Darrow’s choices because they rely on too much Obsidian blood for too little payoff, but she still went with him to Mercury because she is loyal andprobably out of respect for Rangnar’s friendship with Darrow and belief in the Rising.
But her ultimate loyalty is to her own people and caring for them. She’s not going to keep throwing them after Darrow’s suicidal plans.
“My brother was a living god.” The Obsidians with her nod reverently. “But he is dead and in the mead halls of Valhalla, singing songs before Allmother death. On this middle plane, only I speak with him now.” She closes her eyes. Her second eyes, the ones tattooed in blue on her eyelids, stare at me each time she blinks. “And he tells me that my duty is not to Darrow Morning Star. Not to my vengeance. But to my people.”
“No peace lasts, even the wind knows. But I am queen.” She looks at me with her black eyes, and as much as I need her, I cannot fault her. I think our spirits are so well matched that she would come with me if she did not carry the burden left to her by her brother. But she does. “If I march with you, Darrow, all Obsidians march with you. I will not. It is time others fight their own battles.”
I would not expect such duplicitous character from her, to betray Darrow, the Rising, the Republic by doing something so fundamentally damaging to it, but more than that I don’t think she’d betray Ragnar like that. I also would not expect her to have time to run an intricate crime web while she’s fighting a war for ten years.
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