[Listens to her feeling a small pang as the implications of loosing more than one child settle. He waits for her to finish before he offers his own input.]
As previously stated, the pain that you are experiencing in this moment is unfathomable for me. I can however, in small part relate. To being separated from someone so close.
[Bits his lip, watching his hands with little fascination.] I never expressed to you my sympathies regarding Miko's recent departure. I have felt her absence from my own life every day since and it's been... difficult. [Looks back to her again with a very small, sincere expression of gratitude.] But while she was here, she was well cared for. And knowing she was in good hands, well... [Trails off nodding, and averting his eyes.]