[Smuggling Route Dropoff]

"You've got it backwards," Seraphina claims. "It's not that it works best from a position of power, but rather that it's how you get to a position of power." Mixing up cause and effect, and all. "Doing stuff just for themselves would be ineffective, anyway. Would work best if they got others to come to them."

She turns away from the window, back to the guy-with-the-daemon.
"I've never been on a thing like this before. It's pretty fun. Closest I've got to it was a barge crossing a river, but it's totes different."