"What?" Referring to Satine that way felt more than strange. So strange, in fact, he didn't quite grasp the meaning until he glanced up at Satine himself. "Oh. She's not my...anything, actually. I didn't meet her. Formally, I mean. I was about to, but then I ended up here."

He stopped himself from going into too much detail, at least. The idea of her being anything personal to him made his heart skip a beat. She was amazing, but he didn't know anything about her. For all he knew, she would be cruel and want nothing more than a man for his riches. She had sang quite a lot about wanting diamonds. Something he could never give her.

"I could help you search!" he added almost immediately after, shifting the subject before he thought about it too hard. "For your family. I've been all over this place."