Choreography
There were, he mused, two essential factors in destabilizing any group dynamic: animosity and attraction.
Animosity was easy. After all this time, the original seven still begrudged one another. The new members resented the founders. Everyone was suspicious of the spy.
And attraction ...
A woman bidden to follow a dark, brooding man who dared not love her back.
A man whose heart yearned in two directions, unable to choose.
Two golden lovers. A broken hunter and her blank-faced suitor. It was like a play, and he the prurient director under Cadmus' unenlightened eye.
Grodd pushed, and pushed, and pushed.