[The shade only offers Kurt a small, reassuring smile in response to his concern.]

I'm sure. Being like this is how I can finally help the way I've wanted to.

[If he truly could have, he would have squeezed the young man's shoulder as if to comfort him, but there's only the vaguest idea of it that comes through the contact, no real physical force to the solid shadow.]

I know you understand how troubling it is to stand aside while everyone else gets hurt...