Hel was a half-dead thing and saw no need for careful, but she didn't say as much. She along among the siblings had no role to play come Ragnarok. Thor and Víðarr would take her brothers and were the only dangers she could truly picture in any world, but that time hadn't come yet.
So Hel put her head back down on the coiled body of her brother and said, "I know you're my brother, but you are also friend, I think, better than any others."