"Call it a cat's curiosity." I reply just as mildly, recalling just exasperating he can be. "You really expected to..." Wave my hand about as I look for the right word. "telegraph your discontent so loudly and not attract attention?" Arch my eyebrow and take a sip.

"And Lilith is... Lilith. The new Voudon Queen of what might have once been New Orleans." She holds the whole of the area in her thrall, with her High Priestess and fiery lion avatar by her side.

"And how go things here? How grows the Rose garden?" I know the child still lives, but so many children have come before this one...