Taking the bottle, she sipped slowly. "I don't know if I could handle seeing someone die like that again," she admitted, sitting up.
"Well, I thought about what some friends of mine would do in the same situation," she continued, thinking of Mia. "They'd be brave even if they were scared. So I just ... pretended I was them." Though Mia probably would have sworn a little bit.
"Thanks." She finally looked at him fully, head tilting a little. "Why did he have you?"