We’re cutting out important dialogue again I see.

Sokles: This is them─the okyupetes which fell victim to the lykaones.

Maira: They were still being evaluated, yes? The poor things, they barely had a chance to fulfill their design...

Alkaios: Their flesh and bones will return to the land. We will ensure that their existence was not in vain.

Charmion: Seeing life taken mid-purpose can be distressing. Have you witnessed such events before, Forename?

Tell me: how do you express yourself at these times?
It’s that the lives were “mid-purpose” that upsets them, not the fact they were gone. If they died because they were failures, or died of natural causes no one would care. Except for Hermes.