She wiped his cheek gently, not quite guessing correctly at why he was hiding afterwards.

Quietly, "I'm sorry, poppet." A little pause. "There's someone I miss as well."

Given, it wasn't a parent or child of hers that she was thinking of... but that didn't really matter, did it?

"It seems sadder, somehow, though, to miss someone while all alone... would you mind terribly if we missed them together?"