It's in Gansey's rights to be upset, but it still seems so unnecessarily cruel to put it that way.

"They think they can stop it." Noah says with a little shrug, a soft sigh. "They think they can keep you safe."

They can't, though. Not from everything. 'Safe as life' as Gansey was prone to saying. Noah doesn't address his own return to death should they return to Henrietta. That ship has sailed, there's nothing to be done about it now.