"Another strange thing this place has accomplished," Claudius says. "Forcing two perpetual travelers stay in one place and form lasting friendships." He says it lightly, but it's a thing he's used to thinking a great deal about. Back when he fretted over centralized leadership, it was the question of what it would take to make this place feel like a civilization. Not a random cycle of hosts greeting guests plucked from disparate worlds, but a community with common goals. Now the community feels no less random or disparate, but it does feel like it could be a home to someone.