"Not too much. They're the last of the Minutemen, or something. Been running since Quincy."

...Hum.

"They're looking for somewhere to hunker down, then?"

"That's the impression I got."

"Helping them with that would be worth a pretty big favor, on top of rescuing them..."

"Probably, yeah..."

"Something to keep in mind, maybe..." Inside? 

Inside. Hopefully that demonstration against the lizards will convince the raiders to keep playing nice. Otherwise Ellie will have to bring out the robot fist of justice.

It seems to have! Though the Minutemen are also apparently in somewhat tense negotiations about what to do with them - there isn't exactly a local government or law enforcement, and raiders are usually just executed anyways which Preston Garvey seems to disapprove of. 

Could they just.. let them go? Take all their bullets or whatever and shoo them out the door?

That's part of what's being argued about. (Though it's dangerous to leave someone without any weapons, they can leave them knives.) 

Maybe the experience will cause them to rethink their anti-social ways.

(One person is actually pointing out that the line between raiders and settlers is pretty thin, and often overlaps. They're going to need more people who can pick up a weapon, more strong arms - if they can get a defensible area with decent soil, then, well. Everyone's problems solved.)

...Ellie's old neighborhood Sanctuary Hills is, like, habitable. Some buildings still standing. There's a stream, and it's on a hill with decent sightlines. Only one road in.

- And it hasn't been claimed? 

It's... been protected.

...Might work, though they'll need to see it...

It's not that far. A bit north of here.

After some arguments, they decide to invite the (ex?) raiders along, though there's still some uncertainty about grudges over the ones Cat killed. (Still, the raiders started it; most of them apparently see the handful of deaths in that light.)

("Otherwise they're going to have even more of a grudge and know about where we've settled," Preston says quietly to Ellie, "Without any good reason to keep us alive.")

"Not many options, I guess."

"Enough, though, to make a difference."

Shrug. "Take what you can get."

"And build a better foundation for more."

"Yeah. I'm not sure about, like, soil quality and stuff, but you guys know how to deal with that, right?"

"More or less - sometimes there isn't much you can do, though."

"I've never done any farming."