[Hector knows that Adrian speaks from experience. The dhampir lost a family that had presumably loved him dearly before Lisa’s execution. He knows it, he just...he wants to be alone, in the way wild things run off into the forest to die.]

I’m going to be without it whether I’m here or anywhere else. My only foundation is ash now.

[It hurts to even think of speaking her name right now.]

It’s...good of you to care, but you needn’t bother.

[That is, if this is concern for his well-being and not fear of his relapse into forging. He’s too tired to try to judge the inscrutable Adrian’s intentions.]