[Break gives a gentle, thoughtful hum. This is something that -- well, he's never experienced it directly, but he has an idea of it, perhaps. Given his own tendency toward chronic pains, thanks initially to the Mad Hatter and these days thanks to some sort of irritating darkblood issue he probably deserves, Break does know what it's like to get used to hurting, have that hurt taken away, and then to be totally blindsided by it when it returns. Even if you were entirely accustomed to your own aches before, it all starts over when they're fresh and new again. Break imagines it must be astronomically worse if pain is something you weren't even capable of.

No wonder this guy was in such a state back there, even if it's been relatively easy to talk him down from it.]

One of the first incidents to happen to me here...was getting kidnapped by a flock of ravens who tossed me into a decidedly unromantic boat ride with a guy I'd met exactly one time, where we were shown illusionary corpses of our loved ones. Fortunately, he's been in this place a great deal longer than I have, and -- told me right away that if we talked of those painful things and got it over with, the illusion would resolve itself. I've found this to be the way it is over and over again since.

[So, there's the reason Break was so willing to swoop in here, if Hayato is able to read between his lines. Someone who understood things was there to help him as he found his feet, and it made all the difference. Thus, Break is here, paying it forward.]

...shall I help you with that arm?