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's heart dropped like a stone. The Launcelyn fiasco was a fucking problem to be sure but.. the blight. She'd heard of it only in passing, and Ronin… "You're sick?" she said, straightening to inspect him closely.    She had thought it was just stress that made him look so worn and weary, but the blight… and Safrin too? She swallowed and looked out into the training grounds, her chest tightening with every second. She only just got him back, gods above, she had done everything in her power, beyond her power, to get him back.. "It's being studied.. something is being done about this, right?" Remi -- he would never just let something like this go. She didn't know enough about the blight. Sickness was not something she understood how to fight.    Her breath turned shakey, and she drew a hand over her face. "I'm not losing you a second time," she said, eyes hardening as she looked back to him. "I won't." 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.