"That makes one thing we once shared in common then." Her journey with her companions may have granted her the ability to know the world of the surface, but she can still remember the quiet awe of exploring during the course of those months. Now there was this vast world beneath that in all honesty, they hardly knew. Such a thought would be enough to incite the loneliness he referred to in his words, but having him walking beside her helped to... soothe it, in a way. Perhaps it was the sincerity and softness with which he uttered them.

"They may not have any way of knowing it, but having someone thinking about them might help them in a way they can't see." Wasn't that part of their goal, as Heroes? Even if in her mind, it should be that as fellow living beings.

"Or would that be wishful thinking...?"