It did not matter too much whether he knew about it before it happened or not, since he became involved the moment that he opened his mouth.
His words had resulted in the death of someone close to her, and that was what she cared about the most.
After committing to taking action and going through with everything, all that she needed to do was set the stage for everything to play out and work how she wanted it.
Everything had been set up to isolate him and to build up his feelings of fear for when he finally arrived, allowing her to prey upon those emotions even further once the connection had been established.
Everything had been done to prepare him for what was to come, to let her get the most out of him during the time she had to do so.
Everything had come to an end, but she had gotten everything that she needed.
All that was left was to process what she had gained and to figure out how to proceed going forward.
Ash took a moment to stretch her body a little and loosen up.
