"I'm a fan of stars myself. The arrangements aren't familiar, but the spread is." He too knows how to navigate by stars, though not these. Still, it's a comfort.

"There's art, too, that reminds me. And people are never really very different. Though truth be told, the longer I'm here, the less I'm sure how much I want to remember." Physical comforts -- food, clothing, landscape -- are always welcome, but he's having an increasingly difficult time reconciling these two lives. His last life was fast-paced, intense, full of end-of-the-world danger and huge emotional disappointments. It's not that this one is quiet and safe, but there are anchors he has here that he never had before.

"I will say, though, I cannot help being jealous of those who have someone familiar here. I have one particular person that I can't help looking for whenever there's a Confluence. I'm not sure if I'd be delighted to see her or utterly guilty, but I do miss her."