Once-ler froze for a second. As much as he wanted to keep the ruse going that everything was fine back home and that he wasn't a Grade-A Awful Person....maybe that was an unintentional piece of advice.

Build a home in the West and rot there.

He shook his head to clear it. "Yeah, it wouldn't be hard. And there's some security measures I've been wanting to try out anyway. Probably not needed here, but, it'd be fun to make at least."