[ash is angry, kieran is angry, but this actually makes ash relax with a sigh. he's allowed to be angry, he's not just being self-righteous and broken. it's not that he likes kieran's anger or that kieran's angry, but at least it's not twisted up with every other damn feeling in the book]

You're not really wrong. Something happened to her, but she threw this away without a clue what it can do. Like me and the gun, remember? Except I was just being a big baby and that didn't hurt anybody.