Not even for a second does it cross Rhys's mind that this answer might suggest anything preferable about being traumatized in a place where you can never show it on pain of death, than to being traumatized on the Barge where you can just have a breakdown about it like a normal person.

Which means he completely misses the weight of his words, as they hit Elijah.

"I actually think-- what you're doing. Unpacking it, facing it. I know it has to be harder than that."