
This was what happens when she let her guard down. These phantoms of the past will spring up when she least expect them. It was such a shame, she thought she could finally let her mind rest, at least for a moment. Then this...
She allowed Anna to calm her down a little. It should be fine, she thought, so long as she kept her guard up. She was fighting those memories for years now. It bled into everything she did. They never left, they were always there, in the background, haunting her. That little attack on her sanity was only because she got careless. That is not happening again.
"I'm okay. Something just took me by surprise," she reassured the girl. "You on the other hand... I suppose you should take care not to strain yourself too much with your powers."