"It doesn't matter if he's angry with me," says Isabella. "He doesn't frighten me."

(This is almost entirely true, and she considers the simplification forgivable. It's possible that Canaan is such a clever arguer or - unbeknownst to Isabella despite her immersion in Samarian events - such an influential figure, that he could sway authority figures against her or make her life difficult. But in the way that he scares Nathaniel, she is not afraid at all. She is stronger than any man without wings on his back. She can funnel the power of Jovah. She is a divine being and she does not need to fear some mortal who terrorizes children.)