"Don't be sorry," Lena shook her head. "If anyone's going to understand it's us." And Jamie in particular, but Lena didn't feel like his circumstances were her thing to share.
"They're so old that most of them have lost perspective, if they ever had any to begin with. A lot of them were never human and they just can't understand how our emotions and experiences control us and define us. You're not a whining child at all. Hell, most people when being faced with a bunch of ghosts would have wet themselves and run away. I'm sorry she did that. Have you spoken to Hermes about it, or is that not something that is likely to happen?"