Ilithyia understands implication and cares little for it, having never felt any need to apologize for the world and life she was born into. She would have the same for her child, regardless consequences to herself, and is working hard to make sure he will be respected and feared. That he will have anything he desires.

"He suffers for nothing," she says. "His needs are well met and he has friend of similar age only across the hall." That Cleo's father is something of Ilithyia's friend in another manner of speaking is not something to be shared with Spartacus.