Hill also couldn't quite figure Aislin out.
If she really were as she presented herself—harboring an uncontrollable greed for the power in her hands—then she wouldn't have mentally collapsed just because of something Ruth said.
She really was collapsing.
That instant, wanting-to-dig-a-hole-and-hide sense of shame was practically condensing into a layer of Shadow around her.
Hill genuinely felt there was something off about this woman.
The reason Ruth was so tolerant of her didn't seem to be just because Aislin was so doggedly loyal to him.
Hilbert decided to temporarily stop going after that woman… he'd wait until he figured out what exactly was wrong with Aislin, then give her a proper beating.
He certainly wouldn't forgive the discomfort and irritation Aislin had brought him just because there might be some deeper cause, some pitiful past behind it.
At most he wouldn't kill her, but he definitely wouldn't skip beating her up.
