She nods confirmation, though her slight frown suggests that's not quite it, in its entirety. "That's part of it, but also - you helped anchor me to my humanity, for long enough to find other reasons to not go looking for strength in horrible places. To really understand that it's a lie - nothing I could get from them would really serve me. Just them. But I've never been powerful. I think maybe it's easier for me to say 'no, I'll make do with what I've always had' than it would be to give up on something I was used to relying on."