Ash could feel an impending crisis looming over her that only increased her drive to rise higher and higher.
Sometimes she could not hold onto a lot of the things she wanted to no matter how much she wanted to.
Sometimes such things needed to be set aside for the sake of survival but that did not mean she had to completely rid herself of such things forever.
It just meant that the current her was still far too weak to be able to uphold such ideals in the face of the current way the world was and she was incapable of affecting any real change with her current capabilities.
She had no choice but to play the game that was not a part of her design and had been constructed by others.
They were the architects who built the current rules and system that was in place and they were the ones who held the power to affect change.
She was just a small bug that could be crushed if she became a hindrance to their system.
