It wasn't so much using the girl as bait as simply baiting her master. The threat hadn't been empty, Valdis was perfectly willing to kill whoever was behind the cultists and the attack on Anton. She arched a brow, just staring at Erskine, extending the silence longer than she needed to.

"No, I'm not expecting retaliation," she replied, "I'm hoping for it, but I doubt that Indin's master will be so easily goaded. They seem quite content to hide in the shadows and have others do their bidding, not unlike Malicant."