[She glances up from her hands when Akira starts talking, and her eyes go a little wide at the sight of his knee. The ice will help but they're going to need to do more than that.]

Oh--uh, shoot. Do we have something that we could wrap around it?

[And then she stops. She's noticing a pattern here, with someone trying to take everything on his shoulders - and it doesn't just feel like suspicion anymore.]

No one thought they'd do it. But... but they did, and if it wasn't now it would've been later, to someone else for... for something even more stupid than a slice on that woman's cheek--[She cuts herself off with a sucked in gulp of breath, and fiercely rubs the start of tears welling up in her own eyes with the heel of hands. Chloe-- she can't even believe she... just like that. She's gone.]

What if you hadn't intervened where you did and they'd ended up dead instead?