(In fairness, she hardly knows him, and no one else here knows him at all. Who's she going to tell?)

"Oh," she says, and doesn't have the presence of mind to follow it up with all the things you're supposed to say in response to something like that. I'm so sorry, how awful. Not because it's not awful, but because she's busy fitting it together. No wonder he'd risk everything to save someone else's little sister.

"I'm sure Carinda will try to help you, if she can," is what she says eventually, after a moment. Determined, more than reassuring. If Carinda doesn't want to he's got Dana on his side to convince her.