It's a feeling Cal can relate to. But he's found that once you started calling up the past, sometimes it's hard to stop it all from bubbling up again. He only has the village of the Nightbrothers to refer to so he's unsure of how the Nightsister village may have looked. Dathomir had been rife with craggy mountains and rock formations so building your home in them only seems fitting. When Merrin pauses, Cal glances at her quietly.

"...you were close." He can almost envy that. The Jedi were strict in their view of attachments, and although they were functionally never alone for the support and ability to approach most anyone as they were able within the Order, the only actual bond he'd started to form had been with his master. Even then there were still strict lines, and Cal hadn't the time that others had to see that develop into anything stronger than teacher and pupil, like Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker.