Eli had known long ago that his life was intertwined with Samara's and that meant taking all of her family with him. Her father had certainly put him into an interesting position during the war. He remained detached, still trying to figure out why Samara was so upset - but there it was. Your mother's death.
That would explain the emotional outburst, but not really how Benji was acting. Eli had never had the pleasure of living with siblings, so maybe he didn't get it. How siblings could do this. He also didn't have any parents to worry about their deaths. He had been through that all before. So, he dropped his arms and went to her, not sure he could offer her half of what she did him when they were here before, but he would give what he could.
"Cecelia is dead?" As much as he would have liked to assume it wasn't those soulless things, given their destruction path he supposed it wouldn't be an impossibility. Unless - "You do know that if that is true, you're going to have to tell her the how. You can't just say something like that and expect her to simply accept it." Really, he wanted to know. There had been a number of deaths lately connected specifically to those marks and while the soulless creatures could be a possibility, so was this.