( shock tends to throw logic out a window into the open air, an' so he doesn't pay it much mind. even if he knew nothin' else of war, he'd know better than to hold someone's actions against them when they're newly come from trauma. )

S'all right. If you'd known what was gonna happen, I know you would'a asked. That's what's important, all right? I ain't upset. An' I appreciate you tellin' me. Lord knows you didn't have to.

( he already knows she wouldn't tell anyone else, it ain't to the soul of her. ever since that first meetin', she's struck him as bein' deeply honest and loyal by that same stroke. just the fact she's so come to ruin over so small a thing is clear evidence of it. )