Everything Achilles was saying, it might as well have been pulled from Thetis' own mind. But he was starting to shout and draw attention to them, and so she laid one hand lightly on his shoulder.
"No one is doubting your deeds, love," she said in a soothing tone of voice. "Or that he was much more than a ghost of a man, a man who stole my child from my arms and left me to deal with my grief. A man who never even came back to bury his son." Anger had started to seep into her voice as she talked, which she did nothing to stop.