[Barely keeping it together.

No, it's been too soon, and the image of Battler being ripped apart is coming back... she's on the edge of fight or flight, and about to start babbling to him to not talk like that when she remembers:

No, wait, Battler can't know!]

I...

[At a loss for what to do, she tries acting on instinct: she reaches out suddenly and hugs him.]