"Did that help to alleviate your fear a bit? Finding that you had friends here?"

Spencer knew consciously that he would never wish this place on any of the members of his team, but deep down he wished that there had been someone here to greet him when he had arrived. He decided to run his clothing theory by Tara, since she had been in Taxon longer than he.

"In your experience, have you noted that the appearance of clothes in a certain place indicates a desire to stay in that place?"