"You're telling me." Like long-lasting emotional trauma! That's always a great one.

"That... sounds like it was rough." And not unlike his life at times. No way to stop and decompress, gotta keep going, gotta keep fighting because if he didn't, then people got hurt.

People got hurt anyways, but that was beside the point. He had to try. It was all he could do so by god he was going to do it as well as he could.

And the calm way the man was talking to him certainly was helping him focus a bit more. Stay in the moment instead of in the fight or flight his life had been this evening before he got here.