She knows those answers, and she notes Aerith's patience in helping her untangle what's always been a mind easily muddled by feeling despite its strength.

"It's pride," she says. "I don't want that enemy to win. Besides that, if these battles are lost, I don't want to see what that would bring." This doesn't explain why she has to be there; perhaps it's just pride after all. "I want to believe I'm needed there for that," she finally confesses.

The rest, she doesn't say; it's all born of her own weakness, her own feelings that it might be too much for her after all this time. After all, hadn't it been?