Oh, hell's bells, I knew how that felt. Even without the advantage of the soulgaze, I knew that, because I'd been there. When I was not much older than her, when my adoptive father and my teenage love interest both tried to destroy my mind, and then tried to kill me, when I thought I'd killed them both protecting myself, I had nobody in the world... and then the Wardens had come for my head.

When that happens, you can tell yourself logically that you're not really alone. You can tell yourself that there will be other people in your life, and that the world around you has good people as well as bad ones, and that you'll find new friends. You know it, logically.

But you don't believe a word of it. Not in your heart.

Even now, I knew, the fact that she was relying on me was, more than anything else, an indicator of how alone she felt. She had nobody else to trust, save the man who she'd been forced to trust against her will, and that was who she had turned to for comfort.

So I tried a rational angle.

"If Ami is here, then she'll know what Usagi faces- and if she comes out of it alright. So at least you'll know. It's cold comfort, I realize, but it's something you'll know. Something you'll have closure for. That helps, a lot."