"I am when I can be," He explains as he takes his bag back, pulling out the blanket that Joan had willfully passed over and...passing it to her again. "I work at the apothecary. I'm apprenticing there. It's been a busy month, so I haven't been out a lot. Lucky me, timing it to catch a fucking problem.

"New people tend to come out of the Void in waves. A couple weeks every few months...more people show up out here. We try to keep an eye out, especially when it's this cold." A long glance back at Gabe. "When did you get here? You found the boarding house and everything?"

(The idea of the boarding house sparks a mumbled aside to Joan, assuring, "There's a donation bin there, you'll probably find a few things that fit you a little better. Something over nothing for now, but...")