Lost someone... Given that it was whispered asking anything seemed a lot like prying. But from experience, leaving someone when they were in such a state was the worst thing that could be done. Sometimes other people needed conversation and sometimes they just needed someone else there who didn't say anything at all.
Silver paused, and sat down in his place still some paces away. "I don't pretend to know how this world works or about what happened to you." Assuming people's situations was always the worst thing that someone could do, "But it always hurts when you've lost someone. I'm sorry."