After all, who ever truly cared why someone became evil?
People only cared about what evil had done to them, how it hurt, how it scarred. No one paused to ask what shaped the darkness that lived inside another. No one would want to put their feet into the shoes of the people who had harmed them, not unless they are truly someone with the heart made out of gold.
Yet here was Cassius, known across the kingdom for his merciless heart, pondering the reason behind cruelty. Even more, he could forgive it. He doesn't seem to lie or pretend his righteousness, not him, someone who could easily admit what he had done without any shame.
Meaning, that this man's heart was truly carved out of gold and that impressed her as she never had once thought of why someone had turned evil like him, or try to understand it.
