"Yeah, good points, all of that. It's easy to forget how wary they were at first. I got to know some of them pretty well. And I feel like I've let some of my caution slip here. Easy to do that here when most people are trustworthy."

Though he frowns at himself for having said that. Not the sort of thing he'd normally choose to admit out loud. A year here really has been an easier life in so many ways than his life at home had been, though.

"We'll figure out something, if we can. There must be a way to get the signal to go farther. It reaches out into the forest pretty far. I don't know anything about all that, but Will might. Or maybe, if it's been done before, it's in their computer system somewhere."