Carolina... nobody's perfect. If the situation were reversed there's no telling I wouldn't have missed something happening to you after being tortured for days. You can't blame yourself, blame the assholes who did that to us.

[ He doesn't try yet to tilt her head up, but is looking at her intently. She can feel his gaze, for certain. ]

I know it's hard. I blamed myself for everything that happened with Felix and Locus for a long time, for not figuring it out, for not being the one with the solutions, but that isn't going to be you all the time. You've done your best for me since Freelancer fell. I know you did then, too.