Lazar is right, and that's upsetting.

"We can move people through eluvians," he muses, "maybe, if we combine all the eluvians, we could move our base to... I don't know. The Hissing Wastes. Nice and dry there."

He is, however slowly, warming to the presence of his erstwhile-erstwhile roommate. Except,

"That's my bed, by the way."