[Ashley chuckles at that, glad to know she's not the only one. She's always lived a life that supported her tendencies, that channeled them into ways that made them not only safer, but more helpful to the general population. Now she's facing what things might have been like without her mother, without the Sanctuary to lend her guidance and help, and she's doing her best to try.]

Glad to know I'm not alone in it. And now going to argue, but definitely trying to. Pay it forward, that is. Kinda how I was raised, so that work.

[So far, best she can tell, it's all they can do for one another, and hope that it works out in the end.]