Of co-course- of course, I did. He wouldn't'a ever let me hear the end of it if I hadn't. [ Partly true. Partly... well. After all that's happened, after all of who they'd lost and then to suddenly lose them, too. Never mind what he must have witnessed... There's a weight to things when he thinks of it for too long.

Which might explain why he shakes it off. ] Kid, li-listen. Some things are just out of your control, no matter what you do. But I'd never me-mean for something like this to happen if it could be prevented.