"I imagine a lack of memories hasn't kept her ghost out of your life."

It's terribly blunt of him to say so, but it's been a decade since Lady Shelly passed, and so much of the time since has been outlined by her absence. Then, too, he's seen the impact it's had on Sharon, knowing how much of her mother that others saw in her -- Ruby is likewise the spitting image of Summer, he's noticed. Even if Ruby doesn't have much by way of memories of her own, Break can't imagine she hasn't felt the weight of the woman she echoes on the people she loves.

"To be able to look at pains you don't share, and feel compassion for them...that's a wonderful trait in you. You should hold to that." This situation and all the many feelings involved have Break in his rambling old man mode, apparently. He gives Ruby this praise with zero second thought whatsoever. "Mm, but...to exist in this place, but be outside of is spell...it must be rough for you, too, right...?"