"You'll have a chance to tell Adelle once they fix you up here," Ernie spoke to try to keep Zacharias calm, and deal with his own feelings of sadness and pity.
Well if there was any more pity to be had, Ern would've had to feel a pang of it right now. "Well they'll find out soon enough though," he said, reaching for Zacharias' shoulder in what is supposed to be a sympathetic gesture. "And they would probably want you to join them regardless of your differences. You are still family, after all." He had hoped at least of the same from his own family, even if it was he who had managed to walk out on them.