...almost.

[That's what she'd told herself, for a while, and that had been part of it. But, she remembers what Willow had told her, in the meadow, and pieces fit together.]

I...I was, um, on my own. F-For a while. Well, not really alone, but...the, um, the one I was with, I-I thought I could trust them, but I, I found out that I couldn't. Later. Before that, though, th-they kept telling me that...th-that I was weak, that I, I didn't have enough power, that I had to be s-stronger, for them...I believed them.

I only took power from people, like that. People who d-didn't deserve it, or were addicted and n-needed it gone, or who'd hurt other people. But there aren't any people like that, here. There's just you, a-and Kuja, and Zidane and Tavros...and Urotsuki.

And I think I am addicted, because there's...there's been moments. W-Where I haven't been myself. Where that...stopped mattering, just because everything feels so empty and I feel s-so weak.

It was easier, in the tower. I, I could just go, s-somewhere else. And I still hurt someone over this.