"I'm afraid you won't like what I have to say. What you did was wrong, and just as you are trying to distance yourself from your past, to be redeemed and born anew, others have just as much as a right to cut themselves from you completely. It's... hard, and it won't get easier for a while, but it shouldn't be easy. This is part of redemption, Sariel, if it were easy, it wouldn't be real, it wouldn't be deserved. You can't have it just handed it to you, and you are going to lose people along the way. But you're going to gain people too," she smiled. "You will never go it all alone, because you made massive mistakes, but you are still human. Humans can do just as much in the way of wonderful and incredible things as they can horrific. There's no chaos in your heart," she offered, pressing a hand to his chest.

"There might have been darkness, but that doesn't mean you are lost."