Rather than take the offered tissue, Amelia take Adia's offered hand into her own and clings tightly to it. Touching is a strange, often terrifying thing, but dreams does it make her feel better right now.

"I should've been there for him." She doesn't look up at all as she speaks, still unable to push back against the heaviness she feels. "B-before this and... and during this. I should have been there. Maybe then I could have... I-I could... have..." Her grip on Adia's hands tightens and the rest of her body sinks below the level of their hands. She's shaking like a leaf, but she's too lost in her feelings of grief to sense it. "I would have taken the fall for him, if I could have."