Ulrich's Caution

Everything winnowed down to a single focal point: do what we came here to do, take down Maranth. Everything else can wait. So I told myself, but Ulrich’s words rung unceasingly in my head; “She is the cause of that which she cures.”
That can’t be true in my case, it can’t, it just can’t. He was speaking of massive conflicts, the fall of families and regions, things of a large scope, whereas I - I’m small, just me. It was just us, until it all fell apart, and then Zhi appeared and it was just me. Zhi couldn’t be responsible for it all - why bother with us, just two small people, living a life, out of the way? What happened wasn’t her. It *cannot* have been her. It cannot have been her who tore out my heart and ruined my life.
I forced myself to focus, to clear my mind of the ugliest, most horrid possibility, that all my sorrow and misery and pain was because of her. Focus.
A single focal point: Kill Maranth. Everything else comes after. Everything else tumbles down once we are safe.