Sora slowly shakes his head. He has no idea what pathological means, but he sort of gets the gist of it. "He needed to be alone. I should - I knew that." Deep in his heart, he knew that that was what he wanted. "I knew that, I did. But I didn't want him to be alone."

So he followed him. Down a beach, toward a hill. "I'm... not. The." He stops, breathes evenly. It's okay. "I think we were. He was confused. I was... kinda. Scared that." It's okay, he repeats to himself, but his words are doing the thing where they follow exactly what he's thinking, which is everything at once. Slow down.