"I bet if we'd've hinted somethin' was wrong they'd've tried to butt in on ours, but this sorta thing is too dangerous f'r kids. We had t' disappear and they couldn't come with us."

The mention of Kid brought back the grief. He doesn't know what happened to the thief after Hakuba...

Okay, he can't think about that right now. "Be kinda nice to revisit some o' the people I knew to see where they are now."