"Is that really the attitude you should take? What would your clients say back in Balamb?" In a way it would be preferable, for her to just remain hidden, safe, but that wouldn't be her. A Selphie scared, terrified of the outside, ashamed to talk with others. That's now the Selphie he has come to know, neither is the one he wants to see around even if it would save him a lot of headaches and annoyances.

"There's a difference between taking your time to recover and hiding yourself forever, even if this is the first time you are taken prisoner by the enemy;" a first time that shouldn't have happened, that shouldn't repeat itself. But that's his burden, his part of the problem.