[He's so used to people totally refusing to talk about anything bothering them that he's a little surprised when she does the opposite, but it's not bad surprise. Her fears are ones he very much understands, and he can empathize.]

I think it's pretty normal to feel that way.

[It's hard to make those sorts of affirmations sound like more than just platitudes, but he really means it.]

This situation is hard, and it's okay to be worried, or scared, or angry, or a combination of those and anything else. I wish I could tell you something that would help, but we know basically nothing about what we're dealing with, and that just makes it worse.

[Whereas in Hadriel he could've told her some things she didn't need to worry about, he doesn't know if that's true here at all.]