"... I can understand that. But this is a dark cave. It can't be helping much either." If he was trying to escape a dark creature's influence, going into his hidey-hole of negativity didn't exactly seem like the smart thing to do. From her point of view. "And even if it's something you must do alone... you're discounting how the support of others can help."

If Martel were still here, Yuan wouldn't be going through this alone. So of course the woman wasn't. It probably wasn't helping.