"If you think of it as a game with rules that never change, than you've already lost," came the airy reply before Anya took another slow drag of smoke into her lungs, holding it for a long moment before letting it go again. "And there no such thing as a fair fight. If it were fair, there would be no need for any of this as both sides would be civil enough to not try and backstab the other at the first hint of weakness," she continued, tone very dry.