Cade watches her closely, his non-swollen eye alert and searching. Something in what Wren says strikes a cord, making it easier for him to take her words to heart.
"I'm sorry, ser," he says after a pause-- not the usual self-deprecating apology for existing, but an expression of sympathy. "...I... mine are all gone too." For the briefest of moments, despite the circumstances, they're both lieutenants again.