It wasn't anything malicious at all. Mercifully, it didn't involve doing anything like putting together a bomb and detonating it in the midst of a city.

[That one, she still remembers getting called out on for knowing of, yet joining the Serpent anyway. She never did get to properly apologize for that until their reunion, further along in Kiana's future...]

If anything, I was supposed to rein in two Herrschers that went out of control. It should have been possible -- I understood what needed to be done and had the power to make it happen. But... my attempt to subdue them turned into blood on my hands.

[Her head hangs slightly lower as the Owl's last words flash into her mind.

We're Herrschers -- monsters meant to be destroyed. You did what you must. It doesn't matter anymore. Fate played a cruel joke on Ana and me.

The words slip out, as if an outpouring of guilt.]

...One of them couldn't even speak anymore, after it all. But... the other whose life I ended up taking without meaning to...

"Perhaps my emotions left me when I became a Herrscher. I don't even feel sad..."