The people who might do somethin' aren't gonna stop and ask you if you're sweet and kind. Kitty was ornery and mean mouthed but she was either half asleep or out cold when she got killed. So, the folks who do this stuff have no worries over attacking and hurting an unarmed girl.

[He frowned. Talk like that from her just made him worry. He couldn't help it. The world wasn't always a fair place and bad things happened to the sweetest, loveliest people sometimes. He didn't want her to be one of them.]