the wheel has come full circle

ASHE question: how do you make a monster stop feeling so monsterous? you give her something she can hold in her palms without crushing, you give her something sweet and tell her to keep it.    Ashe tracked him as he replaced the head back on the dummy, her brows drawn together. There was never really a such thing as coming back from terrible things, was there? Just changing. They never made it back. They just got to the other side of it, became whatever they had to become. What is it she had become, now that she'd made it to the other side of it all? What would she become with all that happened now?    It was some comfort, at least, that Ronin understood. The blight... did that make it worse?    She took a heavy breath and flexed her wrapped hands. She met his eyes with a tight smile and reached out to take his offered hand, giving it a squeeze. "Training can definitely wait," she said, and followed the Fallen Star inside. {end} you wipe the blood from her hands you say her name, over and over like an absolution. you forgive her. you forgive her. you forgive.