"I've met some who were born here," he says, not that that helps.

Some of them were even his peers in schooling, which he figures he should not add.

"Some... don't have a world to go back to, from what I've learned talking to them."

Or necessarily a life, though at least he knew there was something beyond for whenever he went back. As much as he missed his family, he'd learned not to be in such a hurry about reuniting.

"Though - what do you mean, 'too'?"

There were two possibilities, neither exactly encouraging.