[Zero gets down, moving to sit cross legged on the ground. He's more at her eye level now.]
I was twelve when my parents died. [They were murdered in front of him.] So I know how difficult it is when it's so fresh to think about.
Right now things are very painful, I know. But in the future it's those very memories that you cling to to remember them. Especially when you lose them at a young age, you have less of those memories to choose from.
That pain you feel now--it is the proof that you loved them. Even when time starts to make their faces and voices fade in your head, what you felt that day will always tell you how much you loved them.