[Their smile curves, like the cut of a knife.]

A hole is defined by what is around it, does it not? You are someone who exists as a hole does. You allow others to define who you are, because without that...well, you don't wish to think about what isn't there.

I don't need to know who you are, or even assume, because that's the kind of existence you have. By yourself, you would be nothing, just nothing at all, hm?