The wide-eyed surprise isn't an answer on its own, but the time stretching before X answers might well be.

"Moving out?" he says at last, like the idea has never crossed his mind even as an idle thought. And it hasn't; the Bridge never gave him a reason to leave, not even out of boredom like Zephyr suggests. Now that he's considering it, he's not convinced he could afford it, or that he wants to leave the one place he could be sure of meeting anyone he knows from his home world.

"I --" he begins, stammering a little. "I haven't -- given it much thought. I guess I'm not used to turning down a free bed when there's one available."