Okay, well, maybe he can't offer reprieve. He can at least try, though. There are many ways of expressing the concept: don't suffer alone; misery loves company, et cetera. Bill isn't interested in finding out who has lost the most, but he does like to let people know when they aren't facing grief by themselves.

"I were it so, that Stormbreaker and I didst never stumble, Verity Willis. Alas, some powers be beyond even mine..." Trailing off, even in his wistfulness there is a thread of inextinguishably contagious cheer in the man. Maybe it's the sort of thing that makes one 'worthy.' He looks into the Nexus sky, thinking back to his efforts through time. Ego, the Living Planet. Galactus. Surtur. Asteroth. When you get right down to it, fate had been pretty cruel to Bill and the Korbinites. But, he was just like Verity, in that nobody could come away unscathed from everything in life. And some losses were truly unfair.