"I can tell you, from experience, that my other self was terrified of being alone. I'm also...afraid of that. So, I'll be counting on you, when things get hairy. I will keep you as safe as I can. Nothing more is going to happen to you."

That was very true. Penelope had been an orphan, she'd lost her two closest friends early into the Retrospec experiment, and she'd been through hell and back by herself...before meeting Freya, Lucy, and the others. A lot of people were gone, and Anna was one of the few left. She was going to cling to that. Hard.