Guy wanted to comfort her, lie to her. To tell her that everything really would be better now. He couldn't do it, though. He'd never been able to lie to her.

There was one thing he could be truthful about, though. "You matter, Harriet. Every soldier in a war matters." That's what she had been, after all, even if she hadn't participated in any actual fighting until that day.

"She thought you were, Moses, and she's not the only one."