If Patch understands Cole properly, he's not really alive. He's also not dead. He's not tethered to life and death the way a human would be. He's just Cole. It doesn't make it any easier for her to see him like this.

His assertion to not touch is all that stops her from putting her hands on him, to try and calm him. It halts her mid-reach. "All right. I won't touch you. I promise. It's all right. Just... look here." She puts her hand in the center of her chest. She does her best to project a feeling of calm, of the certainty that it'll be all right, that she'll help him in any way she can.