"No," she says, and while her voice is firm, it's also as gentle as she can make it. Not an admonishment, but a correction. "Your feelings are yours. Actually yours, not pushed on you by a handler or by one of the monsters here. That makes them right. You just need to learn their patterns."

She smiles, fleeting and a little sad.

"Like a new fighting style. It's awkward at first, but you learn how it works, and it starts to come naturally."