[She knew a bit of this from Helix, the background anyway, but she can imagine what it must have been like for both of them. Her own experiences with danger and trauma were more global, genocide and war, and though she'd always known the suffering of individuals was the purpose in fighting those things, it's quite another to hear the detailed events of an individual's story, what had happened to them that changed who they might have been.]
[Lacus lays a hand on the bar, close to his. She would ordinarily place it on his arm as comfort, but given all the changes he'd endured in a short time it might be jarring.] And you couldn't just leave him, of course.