The answer doesn't do a whole lot to clear the mystery up. He wants to ask but how? except Garth'zel asks him a question first, and suddenly he has to wonder if this is something he should know. He ducks his head now, staring at his cup, guilt and worry making him reluctant to shake his head.

"I... I don't go to school anymore," he admits. It had been boring, and what was the point, and he'd had to worry about finding food. (And maybe it was as much because his parents weren't there to take him, and that makes something hurt in his chest and throat.)