After a moment to digest her response, Break lets out a heavy sigh. These kids. These damned kids, and their stupid, stupid worlds that ask so much of them.

"That you would say such a thing...it's a side effect, I should think, of being tasked with a duty far bigger than you, to fix a world-ending problem you had nothing to do with causing." He sounds utterly exhausted, and the smile he turns to her is a little bitter. "You aren't even wrong. That's how it is, if you're going to live in service to others. However, I hope that...rather than shove your own feelings aside entirely, you'll find some way to indulge them. Otherwise they're liable to come exploding out of you regardless at some inconvenient and embarrassing time, you know...?"

The way he's phrasing it is a little humorous, perhaps, but there's an undercurrent of "don't ask me how I know".