"Actually, most people arrive here alone," Leia said. "But if he does turn up here too, I don't think he'll have a difficult time finding you. There's no one else around here with such cute ears or a tail like yours, so all he'd need to do is ask around a little." Whether or not they would allow him to take custody of the little girl again when he did, that was very much another story, but she doubted it would take any reasonably intelligent person long to locate some as distinctive as Raphtalia in Nautilus.

"Besides," she said, "you can wait in the med bay just as easily as you can out here. And in the med bay there's a kitchen, and the ingredients for the pancakes that a very good friend of mine taught me how to make."