shut the door & cut me open

RONIN if there's one thing i'm good at, it's surviving "I can be sad about it even if it isn't necessarily my fault," Ronin said gently, the ghost of a smile flickering across his face. "You didn't sign up for a husband who tormented you in the middle of the night, or threatened you, or tried to hurt you. You'd have gone mad without talking to anyone about it, without trying to go out and live around it all." He shrugged his shoulders. The fresh mentioning of it all - Ascended, Sam, Loren - was a barbed and bitter thing, and Ronin couldn't really hide the sorrow in his face as he remembered it all. "I'm sorry that we never discussed anything about the right or the wrong thing, so we would know what lines exist and when they are crossed." He shook his head.