[Persephone listens, impassive, arms still folded. Though she doesn't interrupt, she's clearly listening. ]

Hermes was in a state when I found them, they were a gibbering wreck. I could barely get much sense from them at all.

[Trauma does that to people, apparently! But as March explains, understanding blossoms.]

There might have been something about that in the nonsense, but I see now. Your mindset was altered by outside forces, that... makes more sense. [She gives a nod. ] Then the fault is not your own. You cannot be blamed for something beyond your control. That is... good to hear. I would have hated to have to kill you for this.