Terezi was still concentrating on those rugs. She allowed Nepeta's words to sink in, which evoked a variety of differing (and mildly upsetting) emotions.

Well, whose fault was it that Vriska wasn't good at showing her decent qualities? Her own. She didn't have to do all of those bad things, after all. But was the fact that she was capable of doing good worth more than her bad attributes?

She thought about her last interaction with her ex-sister in the Veil, but promptly cringed at the memory. She instead shifted her thoughts to her time in Paradisa.

Vriska hadn't done anything terrible since Terezi had arrived here -- not to her knowledge, anyway. She'd been annoying, yes, but when was she not?

Everything she'd done in this castle had been mostly harmless, from her point of view.

"Yeah," she finally spoke. "I figured out my loss as a result of that entire exchange. I thought... I thought she knew what it was, somehow, and was trying to troll me.

"But I guess I jumped to conclusions too fast." Wow, it was still a bit hard to acknowledge that and force it out. "And when I tried to apologize, she wouldn't listen to me."

She sighed and finally raised her head. "How do I fix it?"