Sirius grunted as Dom expressed her concern. He didn’t need someone to be worried about him. That was his job. Sirius would be able to survive, he was sure. “Sometimes you don’t need to think! Sometimes you just have to do!” In a duel you could be dead before you finished your thought. But Dom had never been through a war, had never read newspapers full of obituaries. She was stuck in her naïve little world.
Sirius shook his head. “I know that you only found out afterward, I read the conversation! But Dom” –he lay his hands on her shoulder- “you have watched how she is. If she thinks she can protect people, then she would even lie to others.”