Sabine cast a concerned look over Meesei's silence before her answer. What Meesei said seemed to confirm some of Sabine's fears, though not all of them. She felt surer about what to think, but not what to feel.

"After all of the years since she was tortured..." Sabine looked ahead and down again. She did not know where she was going with her thoughts. "I did not know it was still affecting her. She seemed as she always was for the past few years. She is still in pain, is she not?" The question was inflected rhetorically. Sabine was visibly worried.

Looking back to Meesei, Sabine spoke up more clearly. "What should we do to get them to go down a gentler path? I do not-...I cannot know what it is like to go through what Ahnasha and Fendros did." Sabine's eyes went down. "I do not know how to help if I do not know what they are thinking."