[Ken reaches out tentatively, small hands hesitating to reach for Kaneda's larger ones for the first time in months.]

... In Maurtia Falls, I had people see things too. Mabel saw me fighting. Hina-chan saw-- she saw my mom die. And Crane got in my head last August too.

I need to be able to guard against that. The stuff that's in my head scares people. And I trust Tetsuo-san.