"There was nothing you could do." It's laughed, her face falling out of his hands. Out of his so easily given kindness. "I did this by my own hands. I ought to face the consequences for that."

Her eyes lower again, but this time it is to hide the knit in her brow as something shapes. "But I do not regret it. So perhaps, it is a punishment I deserve." Branded, taken away from everything she knew, taken away from the world which cared about her - to those that would kill each other over the smallest slight.