[Keep pouting kiddo, you're getting Scrubbed. Blood is nasty when it dries in hair, and after she's gotten his skin cleaned off, she's moving to get that cleaned out. His hair is too pretty to be damaged by nasty congealed blood.]

Maybe it's easier if I put it this way, [she ventures,] have you ever had someone you thought was good telling you to do something bad? For example, a friend telling you it's okay to steal from someone else simply because you don't like them? It sounds to me like the forest told Moder it was protecting Nene, and Moder had no reason to doubt it, being a creature of the forest. Maybe she thought you were hurting Nene because she was told that was true.

Biases like that can be hard to break.