Even if her death was quick, Kaine’s punishment for his betrayal would be eternal. Or else they’d use her, just as they had his mother. It would be everything he’d feared. If they found him in her memory. If. She had to push him away, like she had pushed away the memory of— Soren. She would redirect her thoughts, transmute her memories until her mind stopped running to him. She couldn’t confess to something she didn’t remember.
