Well,<em>that</em>got her off balance.  Apparently she was good at feigning in control, perhaps Crimson responded in a way people didn't with her: questioning her.  if that was the case... well, that meant the Maiden had a notable advantage.<br/><br/>"Oh, so... this 'friend' doesn't want you talking about how you came to be?" she said, arms still crossed, but now taking a few careful, measured,<em>determined</em>steps forward "So she was summoned as a four arm weathered whore then?  And then your<em>mortal</em>father<em>somehow</em>managed to convince her - a third-circle demoness - to fuck him,<em>lived through the experience</em>which by your own words is exceptionally difficult to do if not outright impossible, carry the child to term, birth it, and then let you be raised by your mortal father, considering you said you were raised in creation... right?  And you<em>haven't</em>been hunted down by priests, the Wyld Hunt, Dynasts, Anathema... or anything ELSE that might want your demon-blooded body a corpsestain on the ground?  Don't the children of demons also have mutations, often obvious and resulting in them becoming perverse marks upon the very framework of Creation?"<br/><br/>She just kept grilling her, and grilling her, moving closer and closer, not letting up.  If this woman was easily thrown off her game, all she had to do was just keep her staggering until she finally<em>fell</em>...