Kind of like someone pulled the rug out from under you and you're just trying not to fall, huh?

[He's speaking from personal experience there.]

You can ask. [He says it so easily, as if she isn't right. As if these aren't things he'd rather keep dead and buried. As if he wouldn't just prefer to move on and pretend none of this ever happened, even as the whole world is left reeling.] Really.

If I can help you make sense of things, even a little, that's enough.