"Thanks." She'll take his sympathy even if it's an act, she needs all she can get after all. "The cops had to kill my dad when they were trying to bring him in, and someone needed to pay for the crime, so..." She shrugs, resigned to it by now.

She listens closely, finding herself morbidly curious about what the other prisoners had done to be sent here, with all the sordid details. "If they were threatening you, it's the smart move to step in and preempt what they may do to you."

Said as the part of her that identifies very much as the survivor rather than the perpetrator or victim, the trifecta of roles that war within her.