"You're not meant to be alone any more than I am," Bunny points out, with a glum sort of resignation. "It's not fair that we are. We didn't pick it. That's why we're not alone anymore."

He makes his point with another snuggle. He hasn't been alone since he became a Guardian, and being independent was never a matter of preference. Not the way Dan embraced it, after he faced his own bleak aloneness.

It was a necessity, and it's a necessity that Dan doesn't have access too, with mortality still clinging to him like an unbreakable shell.