Of course it hadn't, but the gargantuan nature of the unexpected wasn't enough to assuage Nahariel's guilt. Even as she knows in her mind that Korrin was right, they couldn't have known, her heart aches with the failure. The 'what if's and 'if I had only just's crowd heavily in her chest and make it hard to breathe. Even so, she nods again, hoping that the little acknowledgement will someday grow big enough to blot out the rest.

"You're right, of course," she manages, leaning her head against the Vashoth's sturdiness.