— I didn't ask him to come! [ her voice is nearly as hysterical as his now, tears threatening the edge of it — as upsetting a topic as it is already, it's made more so by seeing him vent his own anger upon himself, and the realization that she's hit a little closer to home with her accusation than she'd thought she had.

Ren has regrets. she knows this, now, knows it in her bones as much as she knows anything about herself, and the shared pain from her own sadness and his despair is almost overwhelming. ]

I couldn't have stopped him from coming, either, because you'd abducted me! Believe me, if it'd been up to me I would have never let him near you, but... [ the tears slip freely down her face, now, and her hysteria subsides somewhat. ] ...he wouldn't have listened to me anyway, you know this.

You know him. Far better than I ever could.