I see. While we were staying together, I got the impression that he's a really smart man. [Maybe too smart. It always felt, whenever he came into the house, like he was encroaching on Van's territory. He really seemed to own the place. Not that he was threatening or anything exactly...he was better at cooking than either he or Arietta were, and he even revived some of the dying plants.]

What about everyone else? Do you see them as a kind of family?