[It's currently Iuneril, so a little over a year can only mean one thing.]

I see... We came here at the same time, then.

[He himself had been rather elusive from the beginning, an almost undetectable presence among the other newcomers and preferring to keep to himself, deal with his new host of problems in isolation. That was back then. His attitude has changed a couple of margins.]

We've been here for so much longer than most others. I wonder if... there's any rhyme or reason as to why some of us return and some of us stay. I have yet to find any connection.