[Regis takes the hand offered to him and gives it a squeeze.]

No, I suppose you are right in that. No matter how bad the memories are, when you can see no future ahead of you, they at least can remind you that you exist.

[He sighs softly as he considers the second half of Ardyn's words.]

It's easy to reopen scars that have never healed properly. Perhaps, that is the point. To give us yet another chance to see them healed right.