" She has cast a spell upon him somehow.  His attention is on her when it should be on our next target. She weeps and he folds like an idiot. Do you want to know why there are seven women still here? Because she asked it of him.  She cried and begged him not to do away with her women and, lo and behold, the women were not put away. "

― Kathryn Le Veque , The Dark Lord (Titans, #1)