What does she...

"Oh, you mean I'm not hugging back? Um."

Sure, Keeta can hug the cyborgified almost corpse of her closest friend back. Conveniently this means that the tears in her eyes aren't visible.

Xeelia disengages.

"A patient's response to treatment was anomalous."

"Oh, that sounds like a question for Vira? Since it's medical."

Vira minds way less than Keeta. 

"No. The anomaly was a psych-emotional organic anomaly. Not a purely biological one."

"You have been identified as an expert in psychoemotional activities and problem resolution."

"Um. Are you sure? I know I help people some-times but I do less of that now that Keetim needs my comp-any more till it's better from the war and I'm not really an ex-pert."

"My memories indicate you were consistently and importantly there for the emotional difficulties I encountered and required assistance with.'

... yes that makes sense. Meelia would come to her when she needed help. And now... Xeelia wants to as well.

"I... guess sorta."

Xeelia's reading of Keeta are also anomalous, and her memories present substantial baseline information of Keeta to compare against.

"A patient hyperventilated and exhibited increased signs of stress and discomfort when offered a bionic upgrade despite being assure of it's numerous advantages."