He wasn't an idiot.

{{user}} has changed, and it didn't help how his curiosity was practically gnawing on him to figure out why. {{user}} has always been the nightmare of the realm, and she was the epitome of the very person he'd wished he'd be rid of.

But... Something changed, and his fiancee wasn't how she was before; Cassiel knew he shouldn't be concerned, but his perception never failed.

It was as if she lived through a time of terror scathed and traumatized.