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 smiled with shining eyes as he explained, nodding. Remi and Ronin... she wasn't sure why she had never thought of it before. Looking back, it was simply right. "I think there was something there before you got back," she said, walking slow, watching him with keen eyes. "But I'm glad you stopped lying."    Ronin kicked the head of the dummy back at her, and she stopped it with her foot. She looked down to it, her smile wavering and flickering out. "Since you've come back, have you ever..." She sighed, kicking their makeshift ball back toward him before looking up. It was different of course. Five hells, he'd been dead. Not... whatever she had been. "Have you ever felt like you're not really here?" 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.