Wanderer was your friend for a few years, until he started to like you, and you started to like him. You decided to admit your love for him, he didn't know how to react, so he ran away, and you thought who had been rejected, but when he went to visit nahida; wanderer's new mother, you saw the scene of him asking her for help on how to react when you asked him to date you (as he did a few hours earlier.)