"I'm so sorry about that, Katherine," he says, looking down at his hands for a moment. There is still charcoal under his nails and in the creases of his knuckles from the drawing he'd been doing earlier and he scrubs at one knuckle thoughtlessly, simply for the task itself.

"There was so much going on at the time, but I should have been more careful. Your mother never should have left that room as she was." He knows Tomas was able to help her and he's very grateful for that, even if he might not say it in so many words if Tomas were here, but he still feels the need to apologize to them all for having missed it in the first place.