Why was a very good question and he had to think for a moment. Then he shook his head, "No, I was never bored with them. I just... would forget." It was a lame explanation but it was the truth. He would just get so involved with whatever he was doing that it became his whole world and he would forget that he was leaving childer behind when he left for the next city - or he would forget they were there and they would leave him rather than make the effort to reconnect him to the real world.
"It was not like I went shopping for a replacement, brought them home, shoved it in their faces," he was getting angry but not at Rook. It was the ghosts of the past that plagued him now. "It has just... been the work. That is all I am good for. I should have never embraced anyone. It was a mistake."