With all due respect, I don't think simply asking Taylor will work. Creel needs to practice trust, but there's no way in hell I'll gain that trust if him getting spiders is conditional on Taylor pinky-promising that she'll leave them alone—partly because there's no way in hell he'll trust Taylor to actually do that.

[ There's a pause as Dorian thinks things over before continuing with, ]

I don't know that man's specific trauma. But there's something about the act of being controlled that absolutely repulses him. So if I ask Taylor to lay off or I ask Dracula to make a magic spider, what's his first thought going to be? Taylor won't lay off, Dracula could easily unmake it, and at it's core this thing could still be controlled. It needs to come from the top brass, it needs to be unfuckable, or it'll only make things worse.

And no, a reduction in powers isn't needed.