[He sets the canteen down between them, a sign that Hiro's more than welcome to it too. He doesn't answer the question right away though, mostly because he doesn't have a concrete answer to that anymore. He takes the sleeping draught, but it's not really enough, exhibited by his disastrous month of poor sleep. He's kind of just expecting he'll need to get used to this exhaustion as the new normal.]

[But it's telling that he asks, and Bellamy knows right away that Hiro's struggling too, more than he'd realized before.] Try and find something that I know is reality. Focus myself on the things I know are real. [A beat.] Even if it means busting up my hands sometimes.

[At least he stopped feeling bad for the trees he's been taking his aggression out on. But fighting has come easy to him for so long that it just feels natural to use it to his own benefit even when he doesn't have a sentient opponent.]