"She...she still thinks...well, everything. But then what did I expect? For her to have the same fucking epiphany I did? That would just be fucking stupid of me, wouldn’t it?" He drew shaky breath, swiping his hand over his face and wiping away the lingering tears that stained his sharp angles of cheek and jaw. "And when I asked her about why – why they stayed, why they didn’t go to the Order for help when the Dark Lord first returned... She said they were trying to protect me."