[She died. It's the obvious answer, not the one he's looking for, and not really the one she wants to give. Ashley deserves better than that. Everyone dies. She was so much more than just another loss.]

I let her walk into an enemy stronghold.

[There's more to the story than that. Of course there is. Ashley had been the perfect target, the progeny of two source blood altered abnormals, daughter of the woman who stood for everything the Cabal were against. And she knows, with or without her approval, Ashley and Henry both would have likely still infiltrated that facility.]

They changed her, used her against me. [Here, she glances down, not quite able to look at him or not quite willing.] In the end, what she did, she did as herself.