Welcome to Assassin interrogation techniques. Not that this was one and not that it was wholly intended, but the point was to keep her in his focus even as she kept her distance. They needed this talk, the two of them. It wasn't something they could bother to simply put off for convenience without further problems down the line.

"Aye, we all have. We seem to have lost our grip on it one way or another on our way here." She frowned at him. She didn't buy his wall for a minute. She didn't need the brief faltering of his confidence to tell her that. "Some of us had powers. Most of us had friends we could rely on. Or we were the ones offering that guidance. So in place of Kenway I have you. So tell me, what was that strength that you relied on? Who was it you'd speak to in your world when you were troubled?"