A loud noise reverberated through the sitting room. Now that was embarassing. Thank heaven Hugo wasn't around to hear it she though. But the smell of the bacon made her stomach rumble.
Sitting down and breaking a piece off to dip in the syrup, she munched on it. "Power? But either you have to have it given to you, or you take it. Right?"
"And if you take it, then it has to be based on something. Fear? So if it's fear, then you have to keep doing things to keep people in line. Which means you need a constant stream of victims. So at some point, so no one gets complacent, you'd have to sacrifice one of your followers as an 'example'. Am I on the right track?"
Juice, they had juice! "Because if I am then he's going to turn on his suppporters, even if he wins, or else he'd lose power. Risk a rebellion."