[she makes a face at the image of Al's soulless body growing away in some cosmic lost-and-found, but she doesn't miss his implications or his tone of voice in the last thing he says.]

Not useless. You aren't. There's so much more to you than just that old armor, Al—it might be gone, but we've still got the most important part of you right here.

[she gently closes her hand around his.]