(Ty! ^^)
Baelphegor grit her teeth and rolled with the blow, using it as an excuse not to reply right away.
"So what?" she said, swooping after him and bowling him back out of the sky. "What else is there? You think our troops are just going to let us quit? Even if I agree with you, which I might not, What can we do about it?"
She sank her claws into his wing in anger. "We are pawns. Suck it up."
So why can't you? she challenged herself mentally.