[now, listen. anna would love the chance to sound cool and unaffected by the absolute callout on display here. but satoko is right, as satoko usually is, and it's possible that anna absolutely deserves it. she laughs at the absolutely correct read of her as a person, slow and drawn out, and it's only as it fades and satoko continues that anna feels A2 protest once more. to the word of advice, to the insistence that she find someone to trust. the only thing trust has done is put her in this position, she says. there's nobody left to trust anymore. and anna hears it, feels it more than anything else, and she breathes in.]

She and I have both been there. She still is, I think. Can you feel her? Yelling about how she doesn't have anyone to trust anymore. [she's asking like the answer doesn't really matter.] But that's what I want to be for her. And that's what I want people like you to be for me. We're all here together now, and we can't just live in isolation, you know...? We have to find people we can trust to have at least some of our best interests in heart. 'Cause I know how I get when I'm alone—you know, like, really, actually alone. And I don't wanna be that way ever again.

So maybe it'll hurt, you know? Maybe I'll trust the wrong person and it'll blow up in my face. But I'd rather make mistakes than never make any choice at all.