[The slightest headtilt at this]

[You don't feel as if you have many friends?]

[This would be the aforementioned loneliness? Probably. And she would wager that most of their kind feel this way - but she's a little surprised that Priscilla does.]

Many people here consider you a friend to them. It's not any consolation, is it?

And I don't mind listening. Priscilla. [I only wish I could do more than that. But she'll settle for listening.]