[Those are some... heavy thoughts.] Hey, listen. [Sit, maybe?
He gestures to the sand and sits himself.] One thing we know for sure, you can't help being here. You don't have the choice to go back, y'know?
I'd think your mother and your [frogmeleon] Pascal would want to be happy. That's what family and... whatever Pascal is want, right? [Shrugging here, because he doesn't know. That's just... the ideal family he's always pictured, sort of wantingly. But, yeah, never met Gothel.] The fact you're thinking about them still means you care about them, not just yourself.