...That man told me, I didn't inherit only my mother's powers. [She has to drop her gaze down to the table, or she'll lose the nerve to talk about any of this.]

I never knew about anything other than being a healer--and I barely knew much about that, let's be honest--but...he said there was something else. Influence on the people around me.

I didn't want to believe it, so I went to find someone who would be able to tell.

[That...would explain why she was harrassing Renn--he's probably the only living person left who really knows enough about the three sorrows to actually be able to tell since Kohane doesn't talk about her silver tongue.

It's probably easy to infer what the answer he gave her was, too, but if she's exerting any influence now, even unintentionally-- it's not working. Something's dampening it, although the effect's clearly not perfect. ]

Retsu, I--If I...if this power's been with me all along, then I've...