He can definitely hear that wistfulness. And he can definitely understand it, if in a different way.

"Community's a hard thing to replicate, in a new place," he agrees, softly. "Where I'm from, there's a saying: quality over quantity. I hope that's what you can find here, if nothing else." Quality. They have some good people here to work with. "And I'm not exactly much of a planner, but if you want help putting on other festivals during the year, you can count me in. I'm good for carrying around supplies, if nothing else. I'll even take direction." When he wants to - and this would be one case where he does.