Maybe because if Tall comes back, that’s the best place to meet up?

My first wife and I had cats; she kept them when we split (fair, they were hers). When I came back to visit (very amicable divorce, ours was) the junior cat would come to me with an attitude of “There you are! Missed you.” And then treated me like I’d been home the whole time. When senior cat died, my ex commented that junior cat didn’t seem to care. “That’s not how she sees the world,” I explained; “I went away, but I came back. Maybe [senior cat] will come back, too. Bad things don’t happen in her world.”