It helped that they were all newcomers here to some degree too probably. Ellie, for example, felt kind of obligated to help out new people. She'd had a difficult time when she'd arrived here, given the arson charge she'd been hit with through no real fault of her own, and Ser Damien had been a big help until they'd found her family and everything else. She knew what it was like to be new here and baffled and fascinated at the same time and...helping was what you just DID.
Ellie grinned, a little shriek of glee escaping as the pebble made its way to her hand. "I did it!" She'd really done it. Oh that felt fantastic!