Sadly it seems no one in 1306 believes they are deserving, for one reason or another. Maybe it is the weight of their burdensome sins. Maybe it is what they have been told time and time again by others. Doc at least is unwilling to stoop, and beg, and grovel for what he wants. He will try his damnedest to pursue his own happiness, but he won't waste his time pounding on a closed door. Sooner or later he will muster up the courage to walk away. He can only hope that others might learn to love themselves enough to walk away.

"So many vexations could be so easily solved, if we could but make someone love us even a fraction of the way we have loved them," Doc muses with a huff of a sigh. He is a romantic at heart. But the heart is a complicated matter. And soulmates are not so easy to find.