He nods—gently, to avoid cracking their heads together. And to pause to appreciate the tickle of some of her stray hair against his face. "That's who was most attracted to the old place. Though we'd take anyone who came."

It's so nice (a) to talk about this aloud at last and (b) do so using the word we.

He hesitated. But Jyn wasn't someone from whom he had to withhold his thoughts before they were plans or certainties—even if he could. "I'm getting ahead of things… but I also thought… if any of them ever needed somewhere safe. For more than the duration of a class. Somewhere to stay or to hide or to find their feet or use as staging area before moving away. There's a back room. I thought it would be nice for you and I to have some amenities there so we wouldn't have to come home for a rest or a shower or if we ever needed to stay overnight. But if the rest works out, might be able to buy more footage from the nextdoor property, knock out a wall… make that part bigger."

A halfway house, or shelter. Not primarily… but securely.

…Which was directly related to… led him to the next point. Which… for several reasons, was a slight tonal shift. "…and I'd like to ask Kay to work there with us, too."