Quote:"Louise will never smile again."
Well. The author never explicitly used those words. Just that Louise was going to do something big to drive the plot, and it was
Louise -has- made some rather large mistakes. On the other hand, she's made them by trusting people she had every good reason to trust, and it may well turn out to be a better choice in the long run. And she's in a position she would have ended up in later in canon, anyway.
She's with someone who recognizes her as a Void mage.
She has her Familiar.
And she's out from under the threat of excommunication or being burned as a heretic - mostly.
Is this a good place to be?
Maybe. Maybe not. We've yet to see. But it's not that Louise will never smile again. It's just that she felt that way for a while, because she realized that, yes, she really -is- responsible for, well, -everything- that's happened.
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Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.