Ocean's Breath Plateau Using your words just to move up a base

Raiyuk didn't understand what his father was doing in the village, especially if they were meant to live in this new one together. Why hadn't he come? He couldn't find it within himself to ask. All that mattered was that Chakliux wasn't here, and his mother couldn't satisfy whatever had upset him.

The longer he waited for someone to come meet them, alone now with his mother, the more he felt badly about it. Not just the absence of his father but his sadness about his friends! They weren't here either; he'd up and left them! What would Seal think? He hadn't wanted to abandon anyone — but then, he hadn't been wholly aware of anything outside his tiny microcosm of life. Would the other kids even notice he was gone?

He waited quietly without any attention spared for Nasamik, fully lost within his own thoughts, emotions, and inner world.