It's like her mind goes blank, at first, seeing it, hearing that, she believes at first that she is dreaming, hallucinating. All her life Abrogail Thrune has been told that was not on offer from Hell, that Hell never offers that no matter how a summoner pleads with them no matter what is offered Hell, that any stories about it are lies and bait to get somebody to the point where they summon a devil hoping to find their soul already damned -
- no, not told, not told by devils, not sworn to her by clerics, she was never told that only given the overpowering impression her whole life that it would be catastrophically pathetic to even ask and the answer would certainly be no and Asmodeus would never compact with her, she would never be Queen, if she made such a pathetic hopeless fearful request -
- why -
- why, why deny her that, when she was the greatest of all Asmodeus's mortal servants -
- it would have cost them so little more, to offer her that bargain, she would have been - more faithful - why give it to these PATHETIC WORMS, this SLAVEMASTER, this CORRUPT GENERAL, and not to HER, if it wasn't against Hell's principles -
- why this, trick, that seems so, small, and petty -
- because that to Asmodeus was fun.
Abrogail does finally scream, then, and try to attack her tormenters, with bare fists and teeth for she has no sorcery.
It is of course the only time she ever tries.