<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/9/93/Haley_cummings_10.jpg)</div>Sandra listened, a bit surprised as answers starting coming forth.  So much of what she'd dealt with already was more a power trip, accepting things without any information.  Meanwhile, SCP didn't seem to mind peeping on them.  There was a famous story about what happened when someone peeped on her stepmom; she wondered if they knew it.  Of course, they'd also know from her file that she didn't believe in revenge.<br/><br/>They didn't answer Kendra's question, though, and so Sandra took it upon herself to answer.  "Knowledge is power, as they say.  I was more than willing to give my own divine parentage, and you didn't.  Why?"  She gestured a dismissal with her hand.  "You're Egyptian, you obviously have a thing for cats, and I'd bet money that Bast is your mother.  You could be pretending, though, in order to trick people.  In that way, you have some degree of power, because you know more about me than I do about you with certainty."<br/><br/>Pushing back on the chair, she kicked up her feet.  She didn't sound angry so much as disappointed.  "That's what they are, Kendra.  They're a power backed with nothing more than secrets, a sort of Illuminati that gets off on telling you nothing unless they have to in order to pull your strings.  Because they lack any actual power, they have to play the stupid games.  Knowledge is the only power they have, and they can't use it without sharing it with someone else."<br/><br/>It was hard to be upset with Artemis for all this.  After all, her stepmom accepted her when Aphrodite had no interest.  Still, it was no less frustrating...<br/><br/>With a sigh, she did decide to try one question.  "Any way to free people from demonic possession besides killing them?"