[She wants to sit him down and diagram it all, dissect him and deal with each organ individually, measure the length of the sinews that tie them together. The woman, helplessness, self-control, Cassel. She isn't sure where to cut first. But the woman is the only new factor, and he opened with death.]

To be perfectly honest, of all the terrible things that have happened to me on or because of this boat, getting killed doesn't crack the top five.

[She doesn't mean it in a dismissive way; she's intimating, or trying to, that the thing he's afraid of is, ironically, survivable, is bearable.]

I mean, it's awful in the moment, it is, the helplessness especially. But you come through it and then it's not as scary. Or it wasn't for me.

And there are. Ways of making yourself safer, that don't all involve being the strongest.