The uncharacteristic response communicates far more than anything else Klaus might have chosen to say. The Fool feels a pang of sympathy; it is terribly, wretchedly unfair what has befallen those two.

He crosses quietly over to the tall man's side while he gathers up the pumpkins that are able to be salvaged, and reaches out to touch his arm. "I'm very sorry," he says quietly, "that he is gone."