Steve opens his mouth to answer, and then shuts it again. Orpheus has a point.

He says quietly, "Let me ask you something, then. If somehow Eurydice came back and you knew she was out there in the world, lost and broken and hunted, wouldn't you drop everything to find her?

"I know it's not quite the same--a best friend isn't as intense a relationship as a wife--but he's still my family. He's all I've got except for you."