Erin nods, thoughtfully. After a moment she sheathes the saber, and lets her hand rest on the hilt, for the comfort of the touch on her palm.

"People are good at assuming things. We're usually even better at lying to ourselves. After all, we're our own most attentive listeners...well, usually." She sighs, and chews her lip. "...One of the fun ones people just keep doing is telling ourselves, when we've wronged someone else, that nothing we do could ever make up for it. We see the future in which we are not forgiven and conclude that to even try is to intrude, to wrong further. When we get caught in that lie it can often fall on the person we wronged to take the first step, which fucking sucks when you're the person that was wronged. But. It sounds like whatever he did, you still want him in your life. Does it hurt more that he hurt you, or that it seems like he's trying to walk away?"