Watching this part, it almost feels like Paige is getting hammered with a huge dose of reality about the prices paid by some people in the world compared to her own relatively stable life.

I thought the opposite. Paige still seemed completely settled in her own pov of the world. Even when she was giving sadface at Claudia's tales of her family being killed I mostly thought that Paige herself carelessly puts her own in danger with her sloppiness and even her choice to spy.