[It's a complicated situation Jolyne is in - the complications of youth, of the intricate dance between humans. Still, he notes her relaxation, quietly happy that she trusts him enough to allow him this small thing.]

Unfortunately, most humans wish for instant results, even when it doesn't work out as such.

['Humans', putting himself apart from them - well, because he is, as an immortal. But he still does understand, however - though he's never had the issue of romance, the way how everything got too much for her...

That is always understandable.]

And if you fail to provide, then you are cut off. It is not surprising, but no less painful when it happens.

[He's quiet for a moment, before speaking again - after all, he told her of how he first turned to crime in the first place.]

...Yet, whoever he was - he may have been blinded, in regards to you. After all...the mere fact that you are speaking to me about these issues instead of bottling it up inside is an indication that you are trying to 'get better.'

[Someone with so much anger, born from frustration and betrayal and hurt...most people had no idea how to handle it.

Thankfully, Moriarty had been working with such people all of his life.

Though...that brings up another question.]

I don't quite know what 'better' means in this situation, however.