Had she known the reason for his sadness then Novella perhaps wouldn't have brushed it off quite so quickly. It still would have been rude to try and intrude upon such things but she would have wanted to try something to distract from his pain and loneliness. This evidently was a start anyway, he had distracted her from her thoughts and perhaps as the conversation progressed Novella would wind up doing the same for him.
Frith moved the conversation on now anyway, enquiring where she lived. "Not far from here." She responded. "I'm part of Ludicael." Not realising that Frith was new to the area it didn't immediately cross her mind that he wouldn't know where or even quite what Ludicael was. She had been here for a year after all and still barely knew anything about the other packs around them.
