*smoothes down your hair comfortingly* Shh...shh... You needn't be alone.
*doesn't know exactly what he means to say or, perhaps more importantly, what he means for you to hear, since you claim that his memories, too fresh, too painful, are of a time long past* We will go home together. Perhaps when...when this is all over? Until then I shall protect you as well as I may.
*smiles, hoping to console you, though he is thoroughly at a loss for what to do (and I still cannot leave this room)*