Liam has probably seen more of Break being quiet than anyone else has. Not just distant, as he was those first several months at Rainsworth — counting that almost feels like cheating, in fact, a chance detail that gives him a head start on the others where Break is concerned. No, not distant; honestly quiet. Every once in a while, Break doesn't feel the need to fill the air with his voice.
It happens when he gets his hands on a book he particularly likes. It happens those nights that the two of them go out to the theater together and Break enjoys the play enough that he doesn't lean over and whisper commentary about it the entire time. It happens at the conclusion of an especially good meal, and when there's a piano in the room and someone talented sits down to play. It happens during the first snow of the season, and between the first two sips of a cup of his favorite tea, and just after he's successfully teased Liam into a flustered snit.
Liam tries to be present for as many of these things as possible. He loves knowing that Break loves things.