Emberflame Ridge there's no turning back now

The look on her face tells him he's lost her for a moment.  He hesitates, not wanting to upset her any more than he already has.  She seems to be on the razor's edge between him keeping her close and him losing her altogether — at least, that's what it feels like.  No, he says gently, after this life.  What do you think happens?  There's too much in a wolf for everything that makes us ... us ... to just be gone once we leave your bodies, don't you think?

What was a safe way to try to explain that?  Like.... our mamas had to've had mamas, too, right?  Do you think when we die, we'll get to meet all of the wolves that we never got to?