"No," she says, before she can stop herself. He's playing with her and she knows that and it's working.
"If you tell Tragos to swap places with that girl," she comes at it better, on her second pass; she comes at it with a hint of a smile of her own. "Then he does it, because you tell him to, and Ares word is law. But in his heart? There'll be a seed of bitterness, resentment from the humiliation, and it'll grow, spreading its little roots of doubt through his mortal mind. Do you know how good I am, with mortals beginning to doubt their superiors? He'll be more mine than yours in the end, if you do that, Ares."