Taking a breath to fill your lungs, you patted Celestia's wing with your own. "Th-there, there. There was nothing you could have done to stop him. He chose to stay... for me. He chose to interfere, for us. If you had been there, the only thing that you would have done is seen it with your own eyes," you tried to assure the princess, finding it oddly amusing that you were now her height, but feeling larger from how much she cried over this.