Blue's indignant rage expands in her chest from a focused anger to a more hypothetical salt-the-earth encompassing whoever this other guy from before is. It's worse, in a way, because she can't lay hands on whoever it was that hurt Beth, then, that made all of this worse. But it's also not her fight, and she takes a long breath, slowing her heartbeat, and keeps her mouth shut for once because she's not helping anything that way.

"I'm sorry," she says, quietly, and maybe she means for asking too many questions, and maybe she means for what happened, or both. "Take your time, okay? We can stay here as long as you need."