"The sharks simply slow down," she said, although she herself didn't slow down at all as she barreled on, "and I'm quite sure we can find you a place to sleep until you start on your own household. I doubt anyone will ask you to work in exchange." Certainly not Ariadne, although she recognized he might be uncomfortable staying in her little tree house. But the company she kept tended to be fairly indifferent to money as well. If not the Jedi, then the Steves, perhaps.

She added a fourth spoonful of sugar to her tea without even looking at it.

"Although, it shouldn't take you long to find something for yourself. Newly arrived Star Children don't have to pay for lodging. All you have to do is fine an empty house in a neighborhood that you like."

And there was a certain air of bemusement about that. Ariadne herself had had a hard time accepting it at first. She'd never had a place of her own, but even she knew that wasn't how it normally worked. Households in Valeria were usually passed on through generations of the same family.