"Oh, not in a great many years." And that is true. After Uzushio's fall he had come back only once, to sit and watch over the ruins and process his grief for all those he had lost. "But I suppose the place does hold some old memories." Obi-Wan pauses, and adds on in humor,"Though, once you have reached my venerable old age—" of only fifty-two, but that can be rather old survival-wise in shinobi terms "–you can say that for just about any place. One of those benefits, along with wisdom and good looks and the like."

His voice changes towards teasing. Laughter and joy is so much easier to handle than grief, and he is not about to show the latter to a strange young girl, even if she is from his old home made anew. It is better than the welling emotion that would not allow him to leave.

"You are doing well then, I suspect. Though there are so many different changes in this world, perhaps I am simply too surprised by them all."