Garviel had been so unfamiliar with the concept of a hug and is so reserved in general that a physical gesture of comfort is the last thing Sarah expects. She looks up at him in surprise that softens into a touch of a smile before she descends into solemnity again.

"It's not hard to be better than the Confederacy. Korhal can barely support life since their fleet bombarded it, and they've left entire colonies to the zerg so their scientists could watch an infestation happen." Sarah doesn't remember the bombing of Korhal personally, only secondhand from recordings watched years after the event, but she absolutely remembers the zerg experiments. She keeps control of her mind enough to spare Garviel the full-color replay of her stint as a guinea pig, but her voice drips with a very personal disgust, paired with a shudder that she doesn't manage to suppress entirely.