She can't find anything to say in answer to that, but on some level, she knows he's right. Anyone could have lost a child; so many others in the world have lost children.

It just feels like there should have been more she could have done, knowing as she did what was likely to happen. But she couldn't, or she didn't, and she can already feel herself trying to close this pain off, hide it away under the layers of dignity and aloofness she normally wears among strangers.

"No." She'd like to see Cai again, too--and she wants to be there for Cullen. They'll need each other more than ever now; Betrys can't make him face this alone. Pulling back just enough to dab a handkerchief at her eyes, she tells him, "I'll go with you."