[ Orpheus doesn't look up, but he doesn't shy away from the touch at all. He appreciates it. He really does. But it's hard to show it, right now. ]

I couldn't save her. I did something impossible, I got everyone's hopes up, and then I ruined it because I couldn't follow one simple instruction.

[ He throws out a hand and knocks over the music stand he'd been writing at, sending it clattering to the ground, and puts his face in his hands. ]

I couldn't do it. I couldn't do it.