[ The flicker of understanding -- respect but not Loyalty is clear -- Akua Sahelian, after all, was Praesi -- and the blood of the First Betrayal, at that! She knows what it is to respect and wish to be the instrument of the downfall of a Rival. Gods Below, did she ever. A good rival was worthy of both respect, and a leader was always a Rival, after all. She knew what it was to respect someone that she would just as suddenly betray and destroy. It was Normal, really. At least for people (or creatures, perhaps?) like them.

But she allows Sebastian to guide her away from it, though he will get the sense that she Allows it, more than that she is ignorant of it. She has her own suspicions, and whether he was weaker than she suspected, or not, it was not of much consequence. After all, she had dealt with Demon Lords before in her dealings and contracts. It was a mark of her respect that she held him in such high esteem, after all. And of such respect. ]

That is still quite staggering. [ She admitted, ruefully. ] My own Doom was only hundreds of thousands of souls. I cannot even comprehend that many people existing on Calernia, frankly.

You must be quite powerful, to be capable of such great destruction.

[ She'll allow herself to be guided, but that does not mean she will not point out the places to which they would diverge back. ]