"I guess it's less noticeable when you run into somethin' you ain't done before, because that'n's natural for people?"

He asks, because it seems like that might tell him a little about himself, too. He wonders why, though, so much was stripped out of him.

"Was it like that before the train?"

But, if he can climb, if he can swim, if a city was unfamiliar, he should try at some point to put a bow in the boy's hand and see what he can do.