Somehow even his name was enough to get her pulse to quicken, as much as any string of words he'd spoken that moved her in the time since she'd first started to receive his gospel. Bellatrix continued to war silently in the very back of her skull, still in violent disagreement with the shift in Adrienne's loyalties, but Adrienne shut the lid on her tight.
There would be no running back to their master now.
"So I hear," Robert replied in that same, slow hiss, unbearably filled to the brim with importance. Adrienne, who had always been a quick study of his sudden change in moods, made sure to avert her eyes to the carpet in a show of humility. Ever the devoted follower. "And it seems you already know my most loyal servant." There was a note of warning in his voice, implying that he didn't like it when other people played with his things.
As if to show him that she still only lived to please him, Adrienne moved obediently past the man who still thought himself a king and claimed two of the glasses from the bar's surface. Her gaze only moved to take in Walter for the space of a single breath before Adrienne pulled her focus back to the irate Dark Lord in the room she'd once pledged her life to.
"My lord," Adrienne murmured softly as she handed off Robert's glass to him, like one might hand a king some sort of token of their undying allegiance. Dying. Ha. For all the effort he'd put in to avoid doing just that, dying may be the only thing he had left.
Robert barely paid attention to her, only long enough to accept the glass she offered and take in an angry sip before his eyes found Walter again. Eyes that were shadowed and sunken in a way that suggested the body was starving, though not for lack of food. When you split your soul into too many pieces, it was only natural that your physical body would no longer be able to retain its natural shape. You were no longer a whole person.
"Now," Robert continued impatiently through all of his teeth, the edge to his words sharp enough to cut with. "Why don't you tell me what it is you have to offer us that my presence was required here? I do have an organization to run."
He had no idea. He had no idea just how many people in the Resistance would be glad to see him fall. Adrienne had taken it upon herself to weed out anyone with a dissenting opinion regarding the possibility of a change in leadership. Those that openly opposed would soon be dealt with.
Circling back around to take her position dutifully behind the man she once called master, from the safety of her new vantage point Adrienne took the opportunity to look on him like one might if they were seriously considering stabbing someone in the back.