[It was wrong. Those words take away some of the bite to her anger -- she's never had someone tell her that before. After all, not once did those murderers show any remorse for killing Mommy. They didn't apologize for killing Ion either. But Peony... did he feel bad about it? About lying to her?]

[She sniffles between sobs, rubbing at her eyes with her sleeve.]

...you lied to me. You told me you were my friend... but you never even told me you were the Emperor! [A fact she learned from Ion -- could she even still call him that?] I... I-I trusted you!