[He wraps his big arm around her warm and steady and tilts his head down over hers, just holding her steady for a minute or so.]

Hey, now. Nothing for you to be sorry for... None of us knew what was going to happen. You couldn't have stopped it.

[He's not even thinking about her not trusting him. He's thinking about how she was friends with the... was it even really Maine anymore?

Carolina had been close to the man that the thing that killed him had once been.]