What a foul man. What a wretched and terrible man.
A man could give up a crown for a moment of genuine and true love.
And when that love was betrayed and that heart was broken, his fury could build empires, for a man who has lost everything is unstoppable because there are no deeper depths left to fall into.
Then why was Damon still so unbridled and mad?
He still had things that were precious. Too much to lose.
Sylvia knew that.
But she also knew that in his mind, he was used to having nothing. And because of that, he became loyal to the one thing that could never betray him.
"Damon's greatest loyalty is to defiance."
What else did he have that could never turn on him but his own rebellion? This was his way of life. Even dying, even death itself, was a form of rebellion. He was spitting in the face of a god.
Lilith knew that.
She had seen it.
