[She thinks she knows why he harbours that resignation. He never was the sort to want to rely on his Eikon for anything, and having to see him admit that it had been a part of why he was able to free himself makes her heart hurt. Even as someone who had relied on her own for far too long, sometimes they do not give them a choice.

At that, however, she looks away from him, ashamed.]

I... I fear she might have managed to get into my head. I do not know if what I was seeing was a result of my own visions, or perhaps exhaustion, but...

[She hides in his neck, allowing herself to relax into that embrace.]

It was not until you had managed to gain control that... I could do something.