"We stopped at this place. There were stones made of void metal. You could hold 'em and think into 'em. I didn't send no messages back then, either. Couldn't bring myself to do it."

He'd genuinely thought that he wasn't mourned, then. Turns out that knowing he was, though, still results in him not being able to say anything.

"Well, I sent a couple. But not to anyone you'd know." At least he better not. That's something he doesn't wanna unpack right now. "But Stakar got one. From this kid on the train, apparently had a lotta good things to say on my behalf. So what happened is you'd get the rock, you'd think real hard about a who and a when, you'd think out your message, you'd chuck it into the water. And it worked. The rock showed up, and he ain't from any version of our universe."