Dan doesn't even pause in his sketching, because he was expecting something like this to come to the surface eventually. People generally don't become workaholics just for the love of their projects. They do it when their home lives have become intolerable or unsurvivable.

"Anything I can do to help you make what you want, you let me know. I know my way around woodworking tools." He figures Miguel already knows that, based on Dan's work station and all the well-made projects. That isn't as far as Dan's willing to go to offer some comfort to Miguel, but it's as far as he thinks Miguel would be receptive to. "Ain't no going home to my dimension either."

Dan and Bunny reworked the timeline, which meant that the deaths that defined Dan's youth didn't happen, but Dan will never see that, never get to go home, never get to be with those loved ones again. The fact that they lived is academic; the visceral memory is of how they died, and that can't be erased just by knowing it was undone. The way their deaths morphed Dan's brain forever, stamped the bloodshed and the gravedigging in like a penny-press, that can't be changed.

But it means that Dan only has to think of one person to make an ofrenda to and not a whole family.