[ relena lays a gentle hand on his arm. ]

I think I can understand that. I know what it's like to lose everything and not know where to go from there.

[ several times over. she looks left, then right, before admitting to him: ] I pulled a gun and shot at someone who was responsible for taking my adoptive father from me. I could have killed her, but at the time, I was so angry and lost, I thought that doing the same to her would make me feel better, somehow. [ a frown, a laugh. ] It didn't.