Emily steps cautiously into range, and hugs the girl.
She really wasn't lying about not minding mind reading. She knows, objectively, that some people do, and she respects that, but she finds it odd. How can you not want to be understood like that?
This is a little backgrounded, though, under sorrow sympathy I hope it'll be alright wish there was more I could do hugs. And a sort of general wave of affection--you are a stranger, yes, but you are a person who is suffering and a child on top of that and you should not be suffering and it is bad.