[The power to feel hearts made her suitable for a project meant to connect everyone, so humanity could go beyond words. But as he speaks to her, as he touches her hand and guides her back to the friendly cat in her lap, she can't help thinking how unnecessary it was.

Maybe people didn't speak enough in her world.

His voice fills her with a feeling she can't pinpoint. It makes her not want to let go of his hand, at first, because she can't manage to speak. Can't express her gratitude at every single word that tumbles out of his mouth. In her world, she could've shared this feeling with him and she tries to will it towards him. Knowing it's pointless and yet-

Don't feel like you have to be alone all the time and You should not be alone and Just remember that it isn't true and-

For once, she can believe them all. She doesn't have to be because of all the people around her. Because of the cat in her lap. Because of person in front of her that radiates kindness in overwhelming waves. And a part of her realizes-

It happens sometimes

It's because he knows what that's like too. Can understand how it aches out of nowhere, even when you're playing a game of tag or doodling cats on the side of rocks. He gets it.

And she can't muster up a single word to show her appreciation for any of it. She doesn't know how, outside of petting the purring animal in her lap, keeping his friend as content as possible.]

That's right. That kind of thing-it isn't like that anymore.

[It won't be like that ever again. It can't be like that ever again.]

That's how it is now

[People who dole out new clothes and friendly cats and tasty fish. That's how it can be for Seto. How it can be for her, for awhile longer.]

Your heart is-

[Something she can't see and yet, she doesn't need that clarity to know-to say these next two, dumb words with absolute confidence.]

Very pretty.