Sun Mote Copse I'll be resting my eyes

He came to a halt and his brain did a pretty good job just emptying entirely of valid thoughts for a minute or so.  Why?  How?  What? He'd seen death from battles, but this was different, and in a way more gruesome and cruel.  And part of that seemed to be its randomness -- at least if you knew you were taking risks you theoretically were accepting the possible negative results.  

When his brain finally unfroze, he looked around at the whole group, one by one, then back to Raven and Wildfire specifically.  None of them deserved this to happen.  He bowed his head sorrowfully, but didn't want to approach much more and crowd people.  Maybe he could say something?  ... Yeah, no chance in hell of Qui having anything resembling words right now.

Why?