[ He feels a stab of pity: this poor innocent, hurt beyond all measure, who still cries out over the pain of his lost wing, insisting that the author of his distress "saved" him.

....although, in a way, Break could say that the Will of the Abyss "saved" him. She took his eye and destroyed his reason for living, in granting his wish; but she gave him a purpose, too. However, that is not the sort of "saving" Kevin needs or deserves. He is no murderer.

Even so, through his own carelessness, he has allowed his life to become entangled with Kevin's, to the point that cutting things off cleanly would be too cruel. He manages to laugh lightly, and pat Kevin's hand. ]

Dear me, don't get so upset. I'm only going because I know that the longer I spend here, the harder it will be to go back to the real world.