Totoka River for the sake of one who was

His intense, glacial eyes bore into Miyako's — Snowe's — as she spoke, explained herself to him.. although he realizes now that he is too demanding of her.  She owed him nothing.

Yes, I do.  But how much did she need to know, did she want to know?  How much would overwhelm her?  Be too much?  She had, of course, told him everything about her.

Miyako, he says again, waiting to see if this gives her any sort of miracle response, although the stoic and logical side of him tells him that most likely it will not.