Nova Peak It's like an apple of temptation

She felt foolish for assuming he had left of his own volition. But that was what happened when you assumed things, even for someone as perceptive as Taki. She wished she hadn't said the words at all, if only to spare him the obvious discomfort of telling her the truth. 

I apologize, she quickly offered. I shouldn't have assumed. But he had offered the truth, and she wondered if that meant he was willing to confide more. Taki was not one of stellar morals herself, so she would not be quick to judge him for his past. What could you have done to be exiled? she asked against her better judgement. But she really couldn't help but wonder what crime he could have possibly committed to make the mother he had described as a monster banish him from his home. Most of all, she wanted to offer him a space to talk about something that clearly weighed heavily on him.