Maybe if I start to miss it a lot, I could look for it? Before here, I didn't do much riding other than getting from one town to another, but then I stayed.

[He doesn't elaborate where and how he'd stayed, because talking about how he'd lived with a corpse for weeks isn't a very pleasant topic, so he's glad that they can move on to talk about spirits.]

Doesn't everyone have something unfinished, every day? Wouldn't that make everyone into a spirit when they die?