She can tell that he was just worried - he didn't want her at the camp in the first place - but his words draw a smile to her face.

"You were scared? How do you think I felt when I found out what happened to you?" She brushes her lips across the back of his hand and then focuses her blue eyes on his as best she can, her voice sliding into something harder. "They won't do it again, Bass. I made sure of it."

He can take from that what he will, but she closes her eyes and rests it against their clasped hands again. "I -- " She sighs. "I don't know what I'd do if something happened to you."