[Anya is ruthless deep down to her core. She hides it less than he does, for all her occasional effusiveness, and she responds to it in him, responds even more strongly to what she sees as the nobility alloyed into it. The drive to act against someone who should have been stopped.]

I know I've said it before. But I'm still glad you did. He scared me.

[He scared her in a way raw danger can't, the slouching malice, the way he could hurt Lua in ways the Admiral might not be able to repair.]