[glancing to his side, as McCoy leans next to him. There are so many rules in this place - that much is clear even without Linneus having much chance to get his head around them - but the presence is welcome.]

It doesn't help, in my case, that I have barely lived anywhere else. I'm not sure what making a life here would mean, but then... I'm not sure what doing so anywhere else would mean, either.

[a soft chuckle - that would be a lot of stairs indeed!]

I shall consider it. But the elevators are not so bad, with company.