"Well, there's that." It's hopelessly inadequate, but there's not much he can do, and nothing he can say that would make it any better. The best he has to offer is empathy, sympathy's less patronizing cousin. Then, with intense irony: "Maybe everyone's luck will turn around, and things will be better here."

Bonding over being hideously traumatized isn't actually something he's super keen on. Thanks, Baedal.