He sighed, letting V'elen work, though with the chains draining her, it won't take as long. "I made a mistake, and you and your brother paid for it. Kyuubi merged with me, Ama. V'elen's side projects came around to bite me in the ass, and in the most... devastating way possible. He asked me to come and protect the two of you, and I have, nevermind I would have regardless. I am sorry, Ama. I can't even express it, but I am so sorry. Forgive me, please. Forgive."<br/><br/>He pressed his head against her hand, sorrow and his self hate flooding down her, as she learned what he had finally figured out. V'elen slowly reshaping Lloth to work for him, but underestimating what making him her single sexuality target would do. Him for trusting his beyonder, mostly due to lack of options since he couldn't actually sense what it was doing. And the horrible, horrible coincidence of both Lloth and Verdelet, without any advanced planning, hitting the Wild Hunt at EXACTLY the same time, Verdelet using cold iron spikes with her constructs in the Faerie while Lloth grabbed both Ama and Inari. His mind kept repeating that one last word, over and over, as he knelt in front of her, tears streaming down his cheeks, the self-hate stronger than ever, the 'betrayal' of Jashah, the companions ganging up against him, all of it finally slammed into him at once, leaning him a moaning, trembling wreck, unable to do more than beg for forgiveness.