Cullen almost had to snort faintly at that - as though Tabris herself didn't jump through topics of conversation like an excitable rabbit more often than not.

"There's very little one can tell a child to prepare them for something like this," he points out to her. "I'm sure you well know. I've already tried to caution him from trusting in strangers - he heard me, but I doubt he fully believed me. And as for the death, and the violence, well. Unfortunately, that only comes with experience."

He's not trying to shelter the boy, it's simply that there are no words for it.