"Newt and Gavvers are both on the flight crew. They wanted to learn to fix shuttles." And who was he to refuse to teach kids something like that? If things had been different, he would have loved to teach Emma these things.

"Gavvers has an older sister here, but Newt's been on her own since her friend from home vanished." She's pretty independent, but she's also seven. So he keeps a quiet eye on her. "They've all managed to find someone to look out for them."