It wasn't difficult to try and be reassuring and soothing - Ares has children and he had to be the one there for them sometimes. He's learned the hard way and though it wasn't an easy role, he could be the one that she could count on.
He slipped his arms around her frame - she was quite small against him, and for a moment it did feel like he was embracing one of his kids - but she felt so different from them.
He held her close to him, enveloping her in his warmth, rubbing his hand down her back a little to try and ease away the worries and the built-up tension.
It could be worse, he told himself mentally. She was holding up well. If he had come and saw her in a worse state he would have felt more distraught - he could have been here for her before but it would have been too late.
Except it wasn't. He was here for her now and whatever she asked of him, he would do it to the best of his ability.