Eaniss asked Replicus to retell his story several times while interrupting him with a plethora of questions at various points during his narration. She did this while maintaining an unblinking stare, and with a high voice each time she interjected.
Pherdanta was awestruck.
She admitted that if it was her that was being interrogated like this, she probably would have slipped a few times under Eaniss' intense presence.
She wasn't Head Faction leader by name only, after all.
At the end of the day, in order to command god-like fiends like the ones in the Factions, you had to be something of the same yourself, or far beyond that.
Eaniss was easily the latter.
Pherdanta withered under her presence, and the only way she would find strength to act, would be if Eaniss assaulted Replicus, something that seemed imminent given how she looked at the Penetrator... but that was just an illusion.