She sighs. Of course, there's the shutdown. Why can't she be better for this girl's sake? This is as frustrating as it is pitiable...but it's hard to say who deserves that pity more.

"Dear girl, just do as you must, but not much more. At least, not on your own. We all wound up here together, so together we must carry on, yes?"

But please, she thinks, don't look so tortured in my presence about it!