"I know what it is to be helpless. I know what it is to be under someone's thumb. I know what it is to experience pain every day of my life. And I promised myself when I frwed myself of that, I wouldn't let it happen again. To anyone I know." She looked to Lucy, and Adalina. She tended up, and looked to Vlad. 

"So the only way you are going to have me powerless is if I'm dead or out of it." She glanced about for any guards, wishing she had some weapon that wasn't her power.