She frowned a little, a line forming between her eyes. "Well, it can't be terribly deep," she said, after a moment's consideration. "I mean, aside from a Hydra, I've never seen anything that could survive having its head chopped off. Let alone grow back two. I'm pretty sure that's not something people can actually do."

Perhaps gods. But they weren't exactly 'people.' It was complicated.

"Oh!" She snapped her fingers. "But you said symbolism, didn't you?"

This was, perhaps, progress on Ariadne's part. While she wasn't stupid by any possible stretch of the imagination...figures of speech always managed to trip her up.

"Well, in that case, isn't any organization like that? When the person in charge is no longer in charge, someone else has to be. Power vacuums create that naturally."