He sighed, looking away now. How to answer this question...? He considered his phrasing for a few minutes, thinking back to exactly how it happened. "You were trying to save a child." Another moment passed as he considered how to put this. "What you were trying to do was honorable. Your death..." He trailed off, unable to say it, but he did shake his head. "Humans are bigoted, reactionary creatures," was all he would say about it.
He really, really didn't want to tell her about what happened to her killers. Or rather, what didn't happen because a friend of hers pardoned them. "I made sure they regretted their actions." His face was dark as he said it, and there was a look of actual happiness in his eyes, as if he'd enjoyed it...which he had. Greatly.