"The ones with the most rooms are all taken, I'm pretty sure," Veronica says, and reaches for one of her homemade journals. She's got a crude map in the front of one, the white space filled in with notes: Added, crossed out, added again.

"I've never gone around and counted bedrooms, just where people were staying," she adds, "but I don't think it would be that bad to just have a few bedrooms. There's always the couch, and sometimes people already have someone to stay with or would just rather claim their own place right away. We can muddle through, and plus, I'm thinking location is probably more important. Someplace close to the middle of town, or at least close to the fountain."