She also symbolizes female energy and Rituals involving little girls.
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You, when you started to tell him that his remorse wasn't enough. That he had to go out into the the world and make shit right.
It's his choice if he wants to do that, being here kinda speaks to him taking up that mantle.
But to repent is to truly feel the remorse.
Feeling that remorse kinda ensures you don't do it again. which is all that is really needed.