You can live with people and yet remain alone.

I've housemates, three. But. I do not think I will go back to the house tonight. Helios still aches for his lost love, Ginia is in pain, Sabriel is still putting her father to rest in her heart.

Part of my...[She waves a hand.] I feel what others feel. Emotions, sensations. Were you to be cut, I would feel you bleed. And bleed with you. Were you to feel grief so keen it rent the very core of you? I would weep as well. So to return to a house full of that...

[She shakes her head.] I would rather not.