[He didn't know that fear, not quite. He knew by proxy through what he'd seen of Erik's past, and for one horrible moment on a beach in Cuba, but he'd been lucky.

It's easier to talk this way. Charles has always been good at being supportive, but it's still hard to articulate things sometimes, because there just weren't words to describe how genuinely sorry you were. But with telepathy, you didn't need words, you could just show the other person how you felt in a way that went beyond platitudes, and he made sure to express that now.]

I'm sorry.