She glanced up when he sat beside her again, and as much as she hated it, her expression was likely akin to that of a lost child. A little bit frightened, and very lonely.

"They're always going to be afraid of me, even if I can learn to fully control my power," she told him. "Maybe not all of them, but enough. They'll be afraid of what I could do, because I'm like all of you."

It was one of her main fears about being back among humans. That she would become attached, that she would lose people, that they would be frightened of her. She'd lived like that once, she didn't know that she could do that again.