"I wasn't sure what you'd want to do, so... Not really." Not that he had a very busy schedule right now anyway. "I have a few interviews tomorrow, but nothing today. I can stay at the centre another night. It's not so bad there, although a lot of the kids are really troubled."

Hartley frowned, ignoring that he himself was a kid that had just gotten thrown out by his parents and was now confronted with poverty for the first time ever, at least in such a direct way. "Makes me wish I could help them. I tried, I fixed some things. I want to try to improve the heating system. If I can do the necessary changes, heating would be a lot cheaper and they could actually afford to bring it up to a nice temperature, even in winter."

Wait. "...sorry, I derail into science sometimes. Do you have plans for today?"