"It's the fallback point I've been working on, in case anything ever happened to the Bastion," Colin tells her. "I can't say it's one hundred percent safe, but I've taken care to make sure that if we ever have to all get there, we'll all be okay."

His smile widens just a little. "I wouldn't offer to take you if I thought it would be dangerous," he says. "Even the squirts and Gasfella there are pretty nice. So long as nobody picks a fight with them, I mean. Heck, they've been moving into some of the facilities, and I've been helping them out. Likewise, they've been helping me by watching the crops and gathering occasionally helpful stuff."

He just won't mention that the Gasefella especially are probably just using him, but the squirts definitely seem to like him well enough.