Stone Circle The toxicity of our city

He was glad she agreed to come along, it would help to perhaps cure his feeling of loneliness - though he supposed he wasn't really alone. He had Valette, too. And the rest of Easthollow, though he couldn't say he knew any particularly well, despite how long he'd been here. Those from the Bypass... well, he didn't know where any of them were so it was a pointless thought to imagine them sticking around. They wouldn't come for him, and he couldn't blame them really. They had their own lives to live, and he doubted even that they were still in the Teekon.

Mawk nodded slowly at Banner's words, finding himself agreeing quite honestly. "It's one of those things that can allow you to take your mind off something. Simply distract you. Or you can lose youself even deeper in thought, I guess." He shrugged lightly as he walked alongside her. "Besides, it's a job that has to be done." Her inquiry was met with a small hum as he thought. Well... they had been here for a reasonable amount of time, he believed. He remembered arriving with... his family, seeking a home after the Bypass disbanded (a part of him wondered what had happened to the Empress, to Gwen. A troubled soul she was). "Since the summer. It's very nice here, I have to say."