So this is a pretty big shift for you.

[was it better, he had heard, to learn one place intimately or many places on the surface? that felt like this situation.]

If you had to come to another world, at least you got this one. A lot of us in the same situation, someone who wants to at least make sure you have a place to stay - it's kinder than others.

But tell me something about your village.

[tell him a story, is what he's implying.]