"Got nothing on 'em."

"Anyway. I was going to clean up after myself," says Tiro. He heads into the dormitory room to start systematically checking for shards and other hazardous items.

"We should figure out sleeping arrangements," Luvei says. "The beds are a windfall--to those of you that can use them."

"If the four halflings double up, we could maybe put mattresses together on the floor or something."

Delsmiar pulls the tatters of her robe closer around her. "I'm not sure I want to sleep alone. I know we don't need to, anymore, but--"

"I know what you mean. We could take all the mattresses off the beds and put 'em all together."

"Furniture, houses, furniture..." mutters Tiro to himself as he reaches behind a broken bed frame at the back of the room and comes up with another shard.

"How do those even get all over the place?"

"When I was shoving all the broken ones to the back I accidentally dropped half a bed on my foot. I thought I cleaned up all the pieces, but I guess not."

"Mattresses from the broken bedframes still work, right?"

"Yep!"

"I'm not sure Aduva and I would fit one of those beds, let alone Luvei."

"Yeah, they seem... human-sized, actually."

"If you're a good representative then I think humans are a little shorter than average, Delsmiar and Leuska are both from species in the modal height range..."

"I'm a really short human. Delsmiar and Leuska are closer to average human height than me."

"Anyway, we're planning to take a bunch of mattresses and shove them together and sleep in kind of a pile, it's been the safest way for a while--well, we usually don't have mattresses, the other part--and it'll take a while for the instinct to go away. Besides: cuddlepile."

"Go right ahead," says Tiro. "I might sleep outside while I'm figuring out construction."

"Why?"

"I think I'd have trouble sleeping in the same room as a bunch of people, and it's not like I'm risking getting rained on or disturbed by wild animals because there's no animals and no weather..."

"I guess that makes sense if you've been alone all this time."

"Yeah. I mean, not that long. But kind of too long. I'm not even totally sure how long."

"I don't know if it's better or worse that we arrived, what with the 'you're not alone anymore' and the spontaneous babies."

"Better," he says firmly. "I mean, better for me, I don't know about you."

"Well, not only are we no longer in the specific war zone we were previously in, there literally aren't enough people around to start a new one."

"Well, all right, when you put it that way..."