“Oh, any little lord can make her people do scut work. That’s dominance, and it’s brittle.” The Brain knelt, grunting, to get the pig by its two trotters. “But if you do your own work, and do it very well, they come to you with questions. As it is with Akhena. And if you answer well enough, not just about what they should do but why they should do it … then they learn to think as you think, and to make the choices you would choose. And you lead them without a word, from a thousand miles away, because you are with them in the shape of their thoughts.”
