He fidgeted, his shoulders shrugging up a couple times for lack of a better reply. Truly, he didn't wonder about it much — not the way some of his cousins did. Snooping around caused trouble, anyhow, and he preferred not to cause much more.

"It's..." He fished for the right answer, grimacing a little as the sound dragged on. At the end of it, his mouth tugged with half a weak, split-second grin. "I don't know. It's just not...something we do. We stay out of the way until we have to be there."