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CHAPTER 587
With how angry Astrid was, it was hard for her to come to reason but when White-Fire spoke to her and echoed her mother's exact words, she finally was able to see things in a new light.
She was still hunted by the fact that because of her, both Eric and Leia died. That must have been a traumatizing thing for her especially watching both deaths before her eyes.
'She never truly got over their deaths, did she?'
'No one can get over such a thing easily, especially having been blamed for it all her life.' White-Fire made her see.
'I know. What I meant was, that she was blamed for it, that was one thing, but she felt guilty for it is another. She took in both problems alone all those years.'
'And your grandmother never spared her the opportunity to ring the bell in her ears. That must have been the torture.'
'Exactly. She was mentally tortured for twenty years.'
