["One of the worse things to happen around here" is definitely how Harlan would describe it.

And here Sal is, continuing his trend of being wise beyond his years. It's refreshing, talking to someone so emotionally open and aware, but it makes Harlan a little sad, too. He doesn't want Sal to be able to relate to him. That doesn't come without some amount of pain in his past.]

I don't know about not knowing how to deal so much as knowing that dealing with it is pointless.

[Not that Sal is wrong in his assessment, though. The overwhelming uncertainty was what led him into that bathroom in the first place.]

Usually with these events, we at least know it's not real. It's not much, but it helps keep you sane. With that event, we had no fucking way of knowing one way or the other. We've never had an event where the gods flat out vanished before.

[He sighs. He probably shouldn't be unloading on Sal like this, but it's an explanation.]

Getting stronger through that kind of shit is true sometimes, I guess. I don't know.