Oh, it really bugs me when an antagonist is revealed to be less inherently powerful than the protagonist and that is implied to be part of what makes her evil. Because might makes right, of course. Yeah, that's right, Anita, that tiger woman is weaker than you. That doesn't make her contemptible, it makes her pretty damn brave for standing up to you. Might have been nice if she'd done it in some way that didn't involve victimising someone even weaker, but even so.

But then, I guess that's the reasoning you get when you decide that conventional heroism was a dumb idea and that you have a duty to make yourself as safe as possible, and to hell with how many people you have to kill or enslave to do it. From that perspective, anyone weaker than you who attacks you is acting immorally (because putting yourself at risk = choosing death = immoral behaviour) and therefore have already proven themselves to be in the wrong.

Rather than Anita being the Human Servant to a Master vampire, Damian is the Vampire Servant (the first and only known ever to exist *eyeroll*) to Anita as his Master necromancer, and Nathaniel as her Animal Servant, not Damian's.

I think you meant to say "Therian Servant" there - you said a little earlier than you didn't like the term "Animal Servant"?