[It's not hard to imagine. The more she peels back the gauze obscuring her world, the more she sees that frightens her. It's a pitiless place. How did it ever get to be so bad?

She can't tell whether this means it's happened before, or that Yuri fears it might. The girl carries a constant melancholy about her, and she doesn't know her well enough to pick out the differing degrees.]

I can see why you'd be afraid. Even here, it's been a struggle to keep our chins up. But...taking fire for someone else only passes that pain from you to them. Not that we should abandon people, but I think there is a difference.

There's a point beyond defending someone where it's just destructive for more than one reason.