"I'm sorry they lost you." Maybe that's too emotionally loaded for a first conversation, but as a sad orphan who really felt the absence of his parents, he can only imagine her loss... even if he can pretty well understand the loss of her children.
As for not connecting disciple to Christianity, well, he wasn't expecting that. They're so painfully synonymous on Earth he doesn't always remember that around Beacon, not everyone is from Earth. It means he is paying her far more mind than he was a second ago, and slowly realizing that he doesn't hear the bristled movement of cloth, or smell the familiar cotton or linen or fiber of clothing.
It's coming to him. Give him a minute.
"Matthew was one of the disciples of God, in the Christian faith. I take it you've not heard of that." So his talks about being a good catholic are a swing and a miss here, too.
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As for not connecting disciple to Christianity, well, he wasn't expecting that. They're so painfully synonymous on Earth he doesn't always remember that around Beacon, not everyone is from Earth. It means he is paying her far more mind than he was a second ago, and slowly realizing that he doesn't hear the bristled movement of cloth, or smell the familiar cotton or linen or fiber of clothing.
It's coming to him. Give him a minute.
"Matthew was one of the disciples of God, in the Christian faith. I take it you've not heard of that." So his talks about being a good catholic are a swing and a miss here, too.