Sea Lion Shores Saw you there and I thought

Saena's mother had died another way, Charon soon found out. It seemed really sad that she had died when giving birth, since that meant that Saena had never even got to meet her. Even though he had been really young when his mother had died, Charon still remembered aproximately how she looked (well, mostly that she was white), and how she smelled (he was pretty sure he knew, anyway, but since he'd never smell her again it was hard to tell whether it was real or just a fictional mental scent to make him feel better when he missed his mother).

"Yeah," Charon said and he nodded. He suddenly felt really sad, and looked away at the ocean for a short moment. "I — I gotta go," he said, and he looked at Saena with sad eyes. "Thanks for all the learning stuff. Where are you from? Can I visit sometimes to learn more, when I'm more bigger?" Charon tried to hold his emotion back, because he didn't want to look like a baby (even though he still was) by bringing out the sob stories about how he missed his mother. It was silly, anyway, because he'd only known her for really short before she died... But he still missed her, and talking about dead mothers reminded the boy of the empty spaces in the den where his parents should've been.