Hershel looked sad for a moment before walking over and putting a hand on Heiji's arm. He wasn't really a touchy-feely kind of person but Heiji seemed to be, and he respected that enough to make the effort. Heiji didn't even seem that broken up right now but it still was such a shitty situation Hershel couldn't help it.

"You should talk about it, if you need to. But um... well, we'll just have to do a lot of real detective work when we escape to figure it out, right? We're pretty smart, after all."