[ It isn't the Force that makes that sentiment familiar, either. Her expression is too knowing for her next words to be a true criticism, but she's careful to state them as gently as her prior question had been all the same. ]

Perhaps you could have. Or perhaps you would only have died beside them.

[ It's a truth she's had to come to terms with herself, though she'd been far too young to have done anything but die alongside her sisters if not for an older sister having shielded her beneath her own body. If not for whatever instinct had told her to lie still until the noises outside the small alcove they were tucked into stopped. ]

I am sorry, though. It is... difficult, when there are so many in need of help