Selena breathed deep and tilted head, analyzing him.

"You talk about her like she's disease," she observed.

"She's vector," he responded, voice firm. "She enters, displaces hierarchies, presents herself as justice, but final result is power concentrated in her and destruction of what existed before."

Selena felt phrase fit perfectly into narrative she already carried, and fact someone validated that with such certainty made her feel less crazy.

"I didn't want this," ...