The success of the two couples is bound up in each other: each needs their other half to bring them summer and each needs to learn that watching someone leave doesn’t mean you won’t see them again. This time when they say goodbye, Eurydice doesn’t make any promises or lay any blame, she just pulls him close to kiss him for all she’s worth, and when they pull apart his bandana is around his eyes as she tells him, “I know you know the way.”

It was never Eurydice’s trust he doubted, and always his own worthiness to be trusted, which only gets worse the more people are counting on him, but before he can question himself into nothingness the earth caresses his steps and he follows the soft new grass to safety.