Hope fluttered at his heart briefly - Anakin wasn't being deceitful - when the words came out of his former Padawan's mouth, but it stilled again as the indisputable fact of the matter reasserted itself.
"But she's not. I can't feel her. Not at all, Anakin. People don't disappear from the Force if they're unconscious. Only if they're..." Dead. Unless she was removed from this place, the only way she would vanish in the Force was death. He looked at Anakin grimly. "What are you saying?"