[Guilt is an emotion that comes to her in occasional waves, when she thinks about-

Stuff she doesn't want to deal with right now, while she's patting down his messy hair, trying to untangle and pick at bits of it with her fingers. Cats treat themselves better than this, Tim.

There are some things you can't fix and that sense of false hope isn't something she wants to give another person. She wants to help, thinks she can, in this one, single instance where loneliness is the source. She can't cure his disease or help injuries in any feasible way.

Her voice drops, in case prying ears are around, because they don't need to know this, but-]

I thought 'it won't go away' and 'it won't stop hurting'-for a very long time. That's how it was.

[A problem she pushed away and ignored because there was no point in facing it in an empty world.]

Then Seto saved me and said he wanted to be with me and-

[She sort of pats his hand down again, giving up on whatever stupid tangles are there. It builds character.]

I felt 'fixed'. When you hear words like that, it feels very good.