He listens to the story. At 'it' being taken away, he figures he doesn't need more than that. Not between mages. The first time he'd been silenced he hadn't even understood anything, had been too overcome with the yelling and the armored men taking him from his home. A mage who gets that they have magic, knows how it feels, to have it taken away like that the first time? Definite a shock.

Not a shock: that it's a Templar Alan has a problem with.

"I'm sorry." It's the best he can offer, really. "It would be nice if ghosts stayed in our pasts rather than appearing again. But they have a habit of not doing so."

He gives Alan a few moments of quiet.

"Do you know what you're going to do about this?"