[Kaori doesn't notice the gesture, not right now anyway. She's a little too caught up in trying to stay in the present and trying to remember all that Legato had said. The terror had been enough to distract her, and the pain afterward made it nearly impossible.]

He was talking about fate, if Vash had managed to change something that happened in their world, I guess... And he must've answered wrong, because... because he really started to make it hurt.

I couldn't control my own body, Freyjadour! [That feeling of violation is what's bringing the tears out now.]