[If nothing else would cheer Niko Bellic up, it would be those words. He knows that any actual revenge here is impossible, especially with their behavioral restrictions. But knowing that someone gets it.]

Thank you. So many people tell me to get over shit and I try hard enough to pretend all this crap is normal. I treat so much like it is just how things happen. [He can admit it here, that if he makes it sound ordinary, it's not so bad.] When it does actually bother me, really bother me? And I am told to fuck off about it?

[It's incredibly upsetting. And if Riptide wasn't so big, he give him a companionable pat on the back. Instead, it's on the back of his leg.]