As a matter of survival—even comfort—she always looked for the nearest, most powerful & capable, and she aligned with them as long as it served her. Her acts of self preservation were sometimes viewed as immoral or evil, but those were the beliefs of people who’d never pulled their battered bodies from the cold morning mud, untangled the chains of a wicked demigoddess from around their wrists and throats, or been swallowed whole not once but twice by the evils of Avernus. No, those opinions did not concern Saega, the Tuskbreaker, and they did little to sway her plan to pry the constricting black snake of the Nine Hells from her soul as soon as she was free of them. 🔥