It must be lonely. [Softly, a little knowing.] No matter how many people know, it's also something that can never be fully shared. [The memory of that fear--of being all that remained--is rooted deep within her. That's something that belongs to Furina, herself, too, after all, and not just the job she performed.]

Would that make you afraid to leave it behind?

[She doesn't know the full extent of Yingying's deterioration or that she literally can't be separated from it as she is now. She knows only what she's observed: that she can't be away from the tree and that her connection to it runs so much deeper than sentimentality.

But Furina also isn't talking about such a literal definition of separation. Yingying seems hesitant to take that offered hand, and in Furina's experience...that kind of stubbornness often goes hand in hand with fear. Or maybe Furina is just naturally a coward.]