It can pretend all it wants, but currently, she's not letting go of it.

"Of course there are. But he can't let their mistrust stop him from ever taking a step forward, from living his life and proving that is not the entirety of who he is. Maybe, if allowed, the voices of the ones who trust him can fill his ears, so those who'd cast him down find little space to be heard."

Maybes, might be-s. It is far, far more than merely a killer, and that is an iron-clad fact to her. Everything that happened, it does not make her care for it one bit less. In fact, it only increases how she feels.