"That sounds pretty common." His tone is--sympathetic, attentive, caring, but washed of the higher awareness and willpower that might otherwise make it more... elegant. As it is, it's a bit blunt-ended. Stripped of finery in the same way an artist abandons a work before the end.

Also just going to conveniently skip that Grace slaughtered the village that abused and murdered her because he has no idea how to unwrap that right now. One thing at a time. Something something in theory you can just say the perfect things to all the bad guys to make them change their minds, but absolutely not in practice maybe.

"You still live with the consequences." Gestures at Grace in general. "Physically and in memory. That pain's complicated. It sounds like, uh, that just the fact that they're gone doesn't make the pain they created disappear too. The past lies like a nightmare on the present... I guess literally in this case."

He blinks a bit, pausing (the wheels are really struggling to spin here), then continues. "Pain is usually a--a measure, that something's wrong. It's a request that something needs to be fixed, healed, but sometimes that's complicated to do, and you can't always... do that. If those villagers can't hurt you anymore, but it isn't helping what they've already done... is that what's bothering you? That it's not over?"