It hurts, to hear that from a kid... but it's not as if Joker isn't familiar with the same sort of feelings, and from around the same age, too. So he takes another breath, focusing on that, and comes all the closer.

"Ya don't have ta," he says, reassuring. "It'll stop soon enough, won't it? Things always do. So why don't we sit on the grass, huh? Everythin' always comes ta an end whether we want it ta or not. S'what the Void is all about, isn't it? S'why it's the better thing."