"How full is the inn right now?" Veronica asks, not unaware that Kira doesn't actually live there anymore. She keeps records of a lot of things, but where people live hasn't been one of them. It didn't seem necessary.

"Really what I'm asking is, if things are so overwhelming, and if there's a possibility of not finding a bed at the inn, why don't we convert one of the houses? Sort of a halfway house for people with shitty luck. It's not often we get more than a couple of people through at a time." Not since she herself had first arrived, in fact. "If we're doing this, why not that? Why not look after those people for the first day or two and make sure they aren't getting frostbite or heat stroke, that they have a place to sleep, that they haven't had a total mental meltdown? And then," she continues with a flat laugh, "we show them the board of crazy."