"...I'm sorry to hear that. About your world, I mean."

Steve decides not to mention the whole great war with Germany and Japan going on. Nazis and the like. It would just be trying to show her up, and that's not how tragedy works. He finishes off the water and takes a breath.

"Yeah. I haven't given up." He wouldn't know how to try, really. "I still ask around and keep my ear out."