It's a comfortable level of reaction for Estinien, really - he doesn't say these things with the hope of inspiring heartache, he's just not a person that's particularly inclined to hold back things that are simply true. As much as it hurts him to think of it too deeply, to fully reflect on what's lost... there's nothing he can do about it, and there's certainly nothing anybody else can do about it.

And he knows that there is enough pain and suffering to go around, which is plainly evidenced by Amos's own comment. It would be easy, he thinks, for Amos to be bitter, hearing about something like that, if he never managed to experience the same. The fact that it's so casually acknowledged gives the sense that he's not, which says something in of itself.

As usual, he doesn't really know how to react to the apology, even though he knows it's probably just being polite. In the end, he just shrugs it off. He's grateful for it, in one sense, but he's also aware of how much that loss nearly ruined him as a person. It's not something that is entirely resolved in his own head.

"I'd like to know more about this place," he says instead, looking up to watch some of the locals as they move about the tavern. "To know if it's truly as pleasant as it appears. But I suppose it needn't be perfect to be better than places we've been before." Especially when Amos is ostensibly coming from grim circumstances himself.

"What brought you to Solvunn to begin with?" he asks. "That man's descriptions left something to be desired."