Stone Circle like a rollercoaster

Nikai was about to ask if Birk wanted to talk about his own hardships in life, if he preferred to have his mother murdered at a young age and be adopted. Nikai of course wouldn't know if his life would've been better with his biological mother rather than being adopted. Birk told a story of a harsh place to live, but what Nikai missed in the story was the part where he'd tell about his parents and family. Weren't those what made life bearable?

"What'd you eat?" he asked in awe after Birk had finished the story. "And what about your family? Weren't they nice? Weren't they sad when you left..?" He didn't mean to say they had to be non-nice for him to leave them behind, but still... Nikai had always wanted to go exploring, but he had always kept himself from doing so because he had a family to take care of. Now he no longer had Keoni, the one he'd wanted to go exploring with, and the pups were grown up, but his leg seemed unable to fulfil his wishes anymore... Normally he might've added a 'if you don't mind me asking' there, but Nikai was too caught up in this story of amazing travel from an amazing place to this place that he forgot his manners a moment.