"Feel free to tell him the price of peace. If he's mad at me for my choices, well, I made 'em. But you're a fucking adult, you can figure it out - especially since you're the one who took his chance to be an independent adult from Max in the first place." Erin stretches her wings, and then smooths them down. "Fucking somehow you've been preventing a vampire civil war this whole time. Use that well-learned politesse, Erik. Or are you going to tell me to my face that your success is just luck?"